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Various factors combine to influence a practice's stability.

How to address the excuse, "I have no time to exercise."

Discover nuances of purchasing stock pre-2011.

Consumer Reports recently surveyed more than 600 primary care doctors and 49,000 patients to learn what makes the doctor-patient relationship tick.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is stepping up its efforts to help you confront health disparities among your patients stemming from their race or ethnicity.

Coordinated primary care should be at the center of any Medicaid reform, according to the American College of Physicians (ACP).

While Congress and the courts struggle over the future of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, Vermont is moving toward a single-payer healthcare system.

A majority of physicians believe more doctors will choose employment over independent practice in the next two to three years, according to a new study by ModernMedicine.com and McKesson.

Time is running out for you to settle any outstanding billing disputes with Blue Cross Blue Shield under the terms of a class action settlement reached with the insurers four years ago.

Office-based practices like yours supported 4 million jobs nationally in 2009, according to a new report from the American Medical Association (AMA).

Your Medicare data billing will be online for all to see if a bill recently introduced in the U.S. Senate becomes law.

If you've adopted electronic health records (EHRs), you can now take the next step toward receiving Medicare's EHR incentive payments.

Ensure better reimbursement through negotiation.

This author had no bag of medical administrative tricks to deal with the new of his mother's Lou Gehrig's disease.

Letters discuss bureaucracy in medicine, the case for medical courts, x-rays and medicine.

From the day we sign our first lease, most of us in business are intimidated by our landlords.

This author has been an advocate of healthcare even before it was fashionable.

Good news from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: The agency has decided to drop a rule that would have required you to sign requisitions for lab tests for your Medicare patients.

Primary care physicians want to deliver excellent patient care, but often find they are forced to focus on volume instead of quality to keep up with their insurance contracts.

The basic formula for figuring return on investment is simple.

Patient satisfaction builds practices' reputations.

A majority of medical groups stated that critical software upgrades to comply with new patient privacy standards have not been made and testing with health plans has not been scheduled.

How to address after-hours burglary.

How to collect funds without harming patient relationship.

Municipal bonds are many physicians' favorite investment.

What if you held the keys to rejuvenating your practice?

You encounter various situations in the practice of medicine, but what do they have in common?

When the author first started as a doctor, it was not unusual to find physicians, attorneys, CPAs, and businesspeople as hospital administrators and CEOs of insurance companies.

Medical groups raised questions about structure and revenue-sharing after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services unveiled its proposed rule about accountable care organizations.

Learn more about sharing expenses and revenues with other physicians.