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Lurking within the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are nearly $300 billion in potential tax breaks, and much of it is available to you.

If an area hospital has offered to help you purchase an electronic health record system, don't worry about missing out on the potential $44,000 incentive payment from the economic stimulus act.

I know I need more life insurance than what my employer gives me, but how much should I get and what type should I get?

I'm a physician who has just started practicing. How do I protect myself and my assets?

Mystery patients can help solve the problems you didn't even know you had.

Replace the E&M documentation-based payment system with a system that rewards service and value, results in sparser and more useful documentation, and eliminates unnecessary complexity and burden.

A lot of my colleagues are moving their investments to certificates of deposit and cash accounts. Should I be doing the same?

All members of your staff should have rewards for meeting expectations as well as consequences for falling short.

A few months ago, our practice ran into some financial difficulties, and we tried to renegotiate our lease contract for our computers, but were rebuffed.

As a resident with more debt than income, how can a financial adviser help me?

Is it safe to have my office staff pay my practice's bills online?

The dawn of EHR scribes

The economic stimulus legislation will increase e-prescribing adoption to more than 75 percent of prescribers in five years, according to a consulting firm.

An arbitration agreement signed before the patient seeks or starts treatment is more likely to be upheld than one signed just before treatment.

Codes 99441, 99442, and 99443 are used to report non-face-to-face evaluation and management services provided by a physician to a patient using the telephone.

Critical care is the total of care rendered by a physician within a calendar day and may be rendered by more than one physician.

With the value of stocks and other equities at an all-time low, now might be the time to transfer those assets to your heirs in hopes of the value rebounding over the course of their lives.

More than half of all non-referred visits to specialists are for routine or preventive care that likely could have been managed by the patient's primary care physician, according to a recent study.

It appears that I would be exposed to potential liability claims if my locum tenens company terminated business because, in this event, there would be no tail policy.

The challenge: Health plans deny or require pre-authorization for prescriptions of name-brand drugs.

If you'd prefer not to pay for a mystery-patient firm, follow this guide to design your own program.

The federal stimulus bill offers a tax credit of up to $8,000 for first-time homebuyers, but there are ways to take advantage of this new tax break even if you already own a home.

Practices that aspire to become medical homes are required to set self-and evidence-based standards for access, communication and clinical care, create and document team-based strategies for achieving these standards, and document movement toward achieving standards.

Senator Max Baucus and another pair of senators have produced two plans to reform America's struggling health care system. How would these plans affect you?

Compare Barack Obama's pre-election and post-election plans for healthcare reform.

I asked one of our vendors to be a golf tournament sponsor for a charitable organization. I was told "no" and wondered why. What can I do to have better luck next time?

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has recommended a 1.1 percent increase in fee-for-service payments to physicians in 2010.

The loss-of-chance doctrine provides that even if a patient had less than a 50-50 chance of a full recovery at the time of a physician's negligent act, it is a compensable injury if that negligence deprived the patient of any chance of recovery.

Researchers at Boston Medical Center have found that a single screening question accurately identifies unhealthy alcohol use in primary care patients.

Why won't lenders offer 15-year or 30-year fixed-rate loans on small medical office buildings?