Practice Management

Here are five tips you can use to set up incentive plans that will achieve your practice’s goals and inspire employees.

As the number of people using text messaging steadily increases, many physicians similarly feel the urge to use text messages to communicate with their patients and colleagues. However, using text messaging in your practice can present legal issues that you may not have considered.

The success of a patient-centered medical home relies on a practice’s ability to track the care patients receive across the various components of the medical home using care coordinators and technology. Here's how to get started.

Coding experts clear up confusion about durable medical equipment orders and the delay of ICD-10.

Physician practices may have limited means to reduce their fixed costs, but strategies exist to leverage those costs into more revenue

Recognizing the rising cost of healthcare and the importance of providing value to patients, resource utilization and value assessments will now be explicitly considered in the development of clinical practice guidelines and performance measures from the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association.

While direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medications means patients are coming to the doctor with drug-related requests, some see an opportunity to educate.

Many patients don’t take their medications as prescribed, but experts say there are ways to help fix that problem.

In the era of increased emphasis on quality metrics, convincing patients with chronic conditions is key to improving treatment adherence. Here are strategies to motivate patients with diabetes.

A reader writes that narrow networks may contain costs, but they don't provide value.

A reader objects to the time and expense of the certification process.

A reader writes that the proposed replacement for the Sustainable Growth Rate formula will not control healthcare spending or improve the quality of care.

Individual Retirement Accounts and retirement plan distributions have complicated rules that must be closely followed by physicians hoping to pass on wealth to their heirs. Here's what physicians need to know.

Good news for physicians concerned about the 90-day grace period: Most health exchange enrollees have paid their premiums

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have delayed ICD-10 end-to-end testing in July, in efforts to readjust the timeline for ICD-10 implementation.

Physicians are facing a new set of administrative challenges for ACA exchange patients, ranging from verifying coverage to coping with narrow networks.

Physicians and hospitals will have more time to attest to Meaningful Use Stage 2 and Stage 3 and more flexibility about the electronic health record systems they use, under a new proposal from CMS and ONC.

Though women are often thought of as the drivers for healthcare in their families, many face cost and logistical barriers to obtaining healthcare for themselves, according to a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Primary care physicians at hospital-owned practices earn more than their counterparts at physician-owned practices, but neither earn nearly as much as healthcare executives, two recent surveys reveal.

The Healthcare Cost Institute is joining with insurance companies Aetna, Humana, and UnitedHealthcare to launch a website that aggregates price and quality data to help patients with healthcare decisions starting in 2015.

The American Medical Association is calling for major reforms to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Meaningful Use incentive program for electronic health records.

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has announced a new plan to verify a patient’s insurance status at the time of service, thereby taking the guesswork out of treating patients covered by a new exchange plan.

Healthcare organizations are getting better at protecting patient data, but employee errors and negligence still are significant challenges.

A new report is gaining attention for its prediction that U.S. companies could save trillions of dollars over the next decade by eliminating employee health plans.

The Federation of State Medical Boards has issued new guidelines for the use of telemedicine, but some of the provisions, including the board’s definition of telemedicine, have prompted criticism from the American Telemedicine Association.