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Physicians who begin practicing and subsequently go back to training in a fellowship have a unique opportunity if they were contributing to a pretax retirement plan, such as a 403b.

For the first time in his 12-year hospital career, Kevin Deighton, MD, had a choice to make: In six months, he could either go solo, find another employer, or unite with other physicians to launch their own practice.

An option for residents and fellows who moonlight and want to defer some of their earnings into tax-advantaged plans is to open a Simplified Employee Pension plan.

The AMA and groups representing hospitals, health insurers, pharmaceutical companies, device makers, and labor groups vowed to do their part to save the country as much as $2 trillion by slowing healthcare expense growth by 1.5 percent over the next decade.

The American Academy of Professional Coders, which in April released a five-year training plan to prepare coders and physicians for ICD-10, recommends all practices start analyzing how the expanded code sets will affect them, but small practices should not begin training until at least six months prior to implementation.

Now is the time to be aggressive and increase your marketing budget.

When engaging a collection agency or an attorney, first be certain that the accounts in question have been worked multiple times and are well over 180 days past due.

I'm joining a practice later this summer with a starting salary of $180,000. How much house can I purchase without the fear of becoming "house poor"?

Although bariatric surgery is becoming an increasingly accepted option to reverse type 2 diabetes, lifestyle interventions, including smoking cessation, improved nutrition, and increased physical activity, coupled with appropriate pharmacotherapy, remain the mainstays for the management of type 2 diabetes.

While no other state besides Massachusetts has mandated individual health insurance for its residents, other states are considering action.

Physician practices in Massachusetts are deteriorating, due in part to state-mandated health coverage and an aging physician population, according to a recent report.

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.