Beverly A. Miller, CPA, CAPPM

With all the new electronic devices in your office, can you truly say that you are HIPAA/HITECH compliant? Will your security features and controls actually prevent the breach of personal health information?

A step towards maximizing your potential profit is to minimize the number of claims being denied and the best way to do that is understand why denials are happening to manage them effectively.

Being proactive is the most important way to prevent an audit or mitigate the potential penalties if you are audited. Take the time to review procedures and records to identify potential audit triggers.

The provisions of the 60-Day Overpayment Rule place significant pressure on Medicare providers to identify overpayments, and reporting zero won't be acceptable, so providers should make sure they completely understand the regulations.

The problem of the current physician shortage (which is only expected to get worse) is one of basic economics: supply is simply not keeping pace with demand.

A reader asks: What are the advantages or disadvantages of two physicians forming a partnership and working under one business ID number versus working under a C Corp, S Corp or LLC?