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To effectively build your practice, it's important to look at a growth plan in the context of the factors you encounter every day.

Learn how to handle the decision to buy an electronic health records system.

In today's world of medical marvels, it's easy to forget the basics and be seduced away from the fundamentals of patient care.

As a primary care physician, you're also a business person, with at least some responsibility for managing the practice's finances, and all the responsibility for managing your own.

Are you ready to deal with the vast amount of information available to your patients in just seconds, thanks to technology?

The five largest publicly traded health insurance companies reported combined profits of $11.7 billion in 2010.

Learn about the telehealth services that Medicare added for 2011.

Author recalls the "go-live" day for his practice's electronic health records system.

The author reflects on his role as patient advocate even when it comes to death certificate forms.

Letters discuss the relationship between primary care physicians and specialists, electronic health records, solo practice and patient perspective on physicians.

Learn whether you can avoid penalties if you withdraw early from your IRA.

Only 14% of patients get their medical records electronically from their physician?s offices, and 30% don?t know why they would need to do so, finds a new report by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health Research Institute. The finding has implications for you and your peers in practices and organizations that hope to reap federal stimulus payments.

One community planned a 1-day screening event for the 14,000 homeless who live on the streets and in shelters in Houston, Texas.

The author's first step into beginning the journey into the new world of the electronic health record was to buy Windows for Dummies.

Understand service corps work's impact on tax relief.

How can a practicing physician cope with being out of the office for months?

Understand whether your retirement assets are at risk if you're sued for malpractice.

As a doctor, you can still refuse to perform abortions and sterilizations on moral grounds, but you can't refuse contraception and family planning services under a new rule from the HHS.

More than 21,000 providers registered for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive programs in January, and four states reported initial Medicaid incentive payments totaling $20.4 million.

The use of locum tenens is rising, underlining the ongoing shortage of doctors nationwide.

A New Jersey Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate is paying for a population care coordinator for primary care practices as part of a patient-centered medical home pilot program that compensates practices using bundled payments.

Learn whether it's worthwhile to obtain a second-to-die insurance policy for estate tax purposes.

Of the 2,212 individuals who participated in the American Osteopathic Association Intern/Resident Registration Program, 74% of students and recent graduates successfully matched for a total of 1,640 placements.

How to be active in an ACO and preserve an existing specialist support network.

In today's world, we are all pension plan managers in some way.

Learn about warfarin therapy codes, as well as billing for nurses services.

Discover the various types of bankruptcy.

The feds are getting serious about cracking down on Medicare fraud.

Medicare permits participation by practice site so that you can participate and accept Medicare 100% of the time at one location and not another.

Keeping patient traffic moving smoothly through your practice starts with realistic scheduling.