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Team-based healthcare relies on everyone working together for the benefit of the patient. And under health reform, having an effective team has its rewards.

Sometimes learning from true stories of physicians who lost assets due to poor planning is the best way to kick start your own asset protection plan.

Every workplace has conflict. The goal is to find professional, respectful, and fair resolution. Here are eight ways to meet that goal in your medical practice.

For some operating their office to simply get the work done is preferred. But your practice can be more forward-thinking. Here's how.

There's a time and a place for formal, sit-down meetings, but spontaneous brainstorming sessions have their value, too. Here are some advantages of the latter.

Even if things aren’t shifting dramatically in your local healthcare market, this is the time to begin to explore these four key factors.

When practice leadership vacations, it can be hard on operations. Here's how to prepare your staff and remedy problems quickly.

Obtaining all information needed to check eligibility and perform pre-visit preparation can be time consuming, but is by far worth it.

With multiple reform programs and changes in reimbursement being considered, it might be time to look at new ways to mitigate the impacts at your practice.

Five major problems arise when important responsibilities are not clearly assigned at medical practices.

The talent of physicians isn't enough to keep a medical practice in business. How to recognize those employees and issues that work against your practice.

Here's how to ensure you're getting top efficiency from the staff you currently have.

I strongly believe practice management, in both the traditional and contemporary sense, has failed on its initial promise to create a more efficient practice.

A proposed rule by CMS would severely hamper PAs and other nonphysician providers from helping patients in need of care, sometimes immediately.

Fear of the physician in any clinical environment is counter-productive. What's a better motivator? Respect and trust.

My husband and I owe the success of our practice to being a micropractice and our participation in an independent physician association.

Here are tips that require your front desk to be accountable for all the money coming in and going out of your office to avoid possible embezzlement.

Physicians shouldn't try to shoulder all the responsibilities that come with practicing medicine. Don't go it alone. A team-based approach can help.

Considering concierge medicine? Make sure your customer service is on point first.

Higher rates of medical staff turnover are most likely related to workplace stress. What can you do to help?

Medical practice staff meetings can improve productivity and staff morale - if done correctly. Here are five ways to hold more effective staff meetings.

Locum tenens physicians can do a lot more for your practice than fill in for physician vacancies. Here's why.

Addressing patients who arrive late is one thing, but when members of your medical practice staff, including physicians, are tardy, it's time to take action

Here are three solutions to reduce paperwork and improve the health of your practice by ensuring that patients receive more personal care and attention.

Here are some tips that will streamline the scheduling process allowing the physician, patient, and front office to perform at an optimal level.

Discussing patient information outside of your practice and over the telephone can result in disclosure of protected health information (PHI).

If you want greater productivity, profitability, and patient and physician satisfaction, look no further than "learned industriousness."

The most difficult patients are the ones who refuse the help medical practices can offer them.

If your practice is acquired or part of a merger, you need to decide the fate of your retirement plan. So consider the costs and flexibility of your options.

It's time to start embracing the new future of healthcare and the important role of physician assistants versus treating reform like a political football.