Physician Productivity

Confused about how the healthcare system is going to change? Let's follow the money to find the answers, starting with recent news from CMS.

Even dedicated staff can sometimes have tunnel vision. But unless team members work together to achieve practice-wide goals, productivity suffers.

How a five-physician internal medicine practice nixed its payer contracts and began charging patients directly for services.

Sometimes, procedures lack RVU values for a reason. If you must, however, here are two strategies to use when assigning RVU values on your own.

Companies are pushing physician-based telemedicine as a solution. But, while promoters may have not thought things through, physicians must.

Leasing your medical practice to a hospital? You may want to consider these 15 contract provisions to ensure your practice is protected for the future.

Charge capture has evolved, from paper to PC to PDA and now to mobile applications, providing physicians with better access to patient data.

Increasing revenue and decreasing practice expenses are often misguided goals. Each is a proxy for the more effective goal of increasing net income.

It is easy to view life from your own circumstances, but chances are your colleagues are experiencing challenges too. Don't forget to reach out.

With projections of a primary-care physician shortage, this infographic from MHA @ GW explores the causes, effect, and possible solutions.

The Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, the generator of RVUs, is still viable despite the changing nature of physician compensation.

Your medical practice's value plays an important part in its future. Here are six ways to boost your practice's value, starting today.

The gap between having an EHR and meeting meaningful use is wide. Here are three tips to narrow the divide.

Value-based reimbursement has a bad reputation because it is misunderstood. Done correctly, through an IPA, it could be primary care’s saving grace.

With costs front and center for patients, in simple and stark terms: If you can’t deliver what the consumer perceives as quality, you will lose.

One of the new menu objectives for the Stage 2 rules of meaningful use stresses care coordination through recording electronic progress notes.

Spending time with your medical assistant will help the day run more smoothly, as well as increase patient and staff satisfaction.

In the three years since the first providers began attesting, meaningful use has already started benefiting patients.

There is a fine line between being an educated patient advocate, and being a know-it-all family member who is in the medical field.

The life of a physician is a complex system. The challenge is to make it a complex adaptive system to survive and thrive.

Technology can solve your business problems, but it has to be the right system with the right partner to truly result in success.

Physicians can survive and thrive, professionally and financially, if they will leave the smooth operation of their practice to business professionals.

Knowing how to calculate RVU values is critical if you are going to apply them to any other applications. Here's a primer for your medical practice.

The debate over pros and cons of health IT persist, but to find success in your medical practice you need one key element: buy-in from the key players.

Our 2014 Technology Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, gives insight on what mobile devices physicians are using daily and for what purposes at their medical practices.

An unpredictable amount of information in a typical EHR is wrong or meaningless, so it's important for patients to stay on top of their own treatment.

It's possible to balance things as a physician at work and home more by bringing the best parts of each to the other location.

Here are four key areas of concern those in healthcare have when it comes to the future of mHealth apps, tools patient are utilizing in greater numbers.

Medical scribes can increase efficiency and the quality of chart documentation. Here's how to calculate your ROI if you choose to use scribes in your practice.

Harvard's Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee state, "Providers must lead the way in making value the overarching goal." Physicians are at the core.