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Carol R. Pincus

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Practice Management

Practice Management Q&A


Berkeley Rice

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What would you do with an extra $100,000?

Some would live out their wildest fantasies, but many would give it away to their families or to charity.


Judy Bee

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8 ways to make your practice more efficient

Want to increase the efficiency of your practice? Here are eight ways to do so.


Joan Rose

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Practice Beat

FRAUD AND ABUSE, REIMBURSEMENT, WRONGFUL DEATH, CAMPAIGN 2000, MANAGED CARE, ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, DID YOU KNOW?, HEALTH BENEFITS, ONLINE PRESCRIBING.


Gail Garfinkel Weiss

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Survey: Malpractice premiums

In the past decade, there was a sharp increase in medical liability premiums, but recently, malpractice insurance has started to level off, indicating a potential new trend.


Yvonne Chilik Wollenberg

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Financial Beat

Air Travel, Education, Autos


Kristie Perry

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Practice Management

Tips on shopping for office space; Can the IRS hep you make a deadbeat pay?; Giving your staff a piece of the action; Whether to borrow marketing techniques from the supermarket; When a health plan wants a refund of old overpayments; Make sure a hospital will deliver on its promise; How to respond to a software theft; Can you charge insurers more for copying patients' charts?



James Hendricks

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Flashback in Medical Economics

25, 50, and 75 years ago in Medical Economics



Jeff Forster

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Are the best and brightest going into medicine?

A loaded question, and everyone has an opinion. Among the intriguing thoughts: Maybe it's the wrong question.



Timothy Begany

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Where bonds are headed--and why you need to go there

With the stock market so volatile and interest rates poised to fall, bonds are looking better than they have for quite some time.



Glenn Gray

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The word I couldn't bring myself to use

The author had much in common with his patient. And the patient had much to lose.


Mary Ann Bauman, MD

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Bauman: Nervous but glad

Medical Economics editorial board member Mary Ann Bauman, MD, shares her opinion of the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act.


Suzanne Duke

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PDAs for Doctors: Decoding geekspeak: A glossary of PDA terms

Half the battle in figuring out your hardware and software needs is making sense of the terms beloved of computer files.



Michael Pretzer

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Let your kids save you money, for a change

Raising a family costs plenty, but these tax tips may lessen the price.


Anne Finger

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Physicians are true believers

Their religious convictions are stronger than ever, our survey finds.


Deborah Grandinetti

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Sex and the satisfied doctor

Most physicians are happy with their sex lives. But one in eight has committed adultery.


Mark Crane

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Doctors say, and do, the darndest things

Some responses to our lifestyle survey were a bit bewildering, amusing, or perhaps frightening, depending on your point of view.




Kathleen McKee

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The smart way to give to your Alma Mater

You want to give back, but don't know how to go about it? Here's help.



Mark L. Fuerst

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Shorter hepatitis C regimen effective in black patients

More patients could take advantage of shorter direct-acting antiviral treatment duration.


Julie Miller

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How to hire great medical assistants

Practices looking to hire medical assistants should consider each candidate’s education and certification, as well as past medical and administrative work experience.


Mark Fuerst

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Ethnic disparities evaporate with DAA treatment of hepatitis C infections

Hispanic and Asian patients have a higher risk of cirrhosis and liver cancer, but direct-antiviral treatment eliminates ethnic disparities.


David J. Goldberg, M.D., J.D.

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Malpractice discussion: Am I liable if the patient wasn’t mine?

Generally, a physician owes no duty to a patient without a physician-patient relationship.