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Rein in hidden billing costsWhere do hidden billing costs typically exist-and how can practice leaders more effectively rein them in? Here are four common blind spots?
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5 ways to encourage patients to leave positive reviews onlineBy enacting a few simple techniques, you can better ensure patients share and spread positive feedback of your practice.
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More is less: The future of data-driven medicineIt’s not enough to send data. For data to have value, it needs to have purpose.
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Solving physician burnout: The two keysHealth systems cannot impose a new order on physician communities. Attempting to do so without meaningful physician input will increase their sense of disenfranchisement and aggravate burnout.
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Improving quality and increasing star ratingsWhat you need to know to perform better on quality measures and get a higher rating.
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Federal funding cuts in health care will jeopardize patient outcomes and ultimately raise costsAs Trump and Congress debate the Big Beautiful Bill, public health, medical research, and Medicaid could ‘Make America Healthy Again’ — if the nation pays for them.
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Digital preparation for physicians in a time of crisisFive considerations for physicians in the face of COVID-19.
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How COVID-19 Is Changing Patients’ Perception of HealthcareA new survey of 500 U.S. consumers by Sage Growth Partners and Black Book Market Research reveals how COVID-19 is significantly changing patients’ healthcare concerns and preferences.
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Physician finances: What to do in these uncertain timesYou don’t need a lecture about what to do and not to do with your money. What you need is a survival guide.
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Chronic Care Codes Offer Greater Flexibility and Payment in 2020Here are the new CMS coding changes and ways to maximize reimbursement and care management efficiency.
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Frank Gabrin's story: Discovering 'the heart of care'Frank Gabrin, DO, passed away last week from COVID-19. In 2012, he wrote a heartfelt cover story for Medical Economics. Here it is.
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Why hybrid care starts with the patientA combo of in-person and virtual visits is here to stay.
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4 tips to use technology to gain work-life balanceTo take good care of patients, themselves, and loved ones, providers need to strike work-life balance.
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The link between revenue cycle management and mental health patients’ well-beingOptimizing revenue cycle management for mental health providers, and how primary care physicians can help bridge the gap.
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The OFFCP’s proposed rule to end the Tricare debateWhat you need to know about this proposed rule.
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The OFFCP’s proposed rule to end the Tricare debateWhat you need to know about this proposed rule.
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Top 5 Lessons Learned about Telehealth As We Face Our New NormalWe now look to telehealth not just for convenience, but for its safety and flexibility.
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Transparency in billing is a challenge and opportunity for providersUnlike most industries which have a clear cost and billing structure, the healthcare revenue cycle remains an overly complex, opaque, and inefficient tangle of patients, providers, employers, and insurance companies.
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Mitigating health care’s cybersecurity risks in the era of hyperconnectivityFor an increasingly sophisticated, global community of cybercriminals, health care pays - both figuratively and literally.
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Managing Obesity, Stress and Depression During the COVID-19 pandemicGetting a handle on the pandemic must include efforts to address the obesity and mental health crises as well
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Now what? The imminent dangers and emerging opportunities for physiciansIndependent physicians likely have two options to sustain their practices into the future.
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Is this the end of the independent physician?The plight of the independent physician has never been so stark.
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Telehealth success hinges on better toolsAs the need for telemedicine increases, so does the urgency for creating new, less intrusive technology platforms.
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Post-Acute care was broken before COVID-19 - the pandemic might fix itThe COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in how our healthcare system handles acute care.
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It’s not too soon to learn lessons from COVID-19 pandemicHere are four critical communications strategies to help deal more effectively with the next crisis.
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Pandemic underscores need for national InteroperabilityPhysicians and other providers need access to records now. Here’s one way they can.
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Why we need a ‘one-to-many’ telehealth model of careTelehealth is here to stay. To make it sustainable and scalable, we must utilize remote technologies that enable a “one-to-many” model of care.
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Who profits from medical records?Medical records, which most patients think are private and protected, are in reality lucrative commodities in a multibillion-dollar industry.
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Cyber security risk growing for small medical practicesHackers are targeting health practices of all size.
