Practice Management

This month's question focuses on what to do when you receive analyses from your payers. Find out the answer to this pressing coding question.

Highlighting preventive care could help change healthcare economics.

Medical Economics readers discuss maintenance of certification and medical homes.

Nearly half of the primary care physicians polled in a recent study say they plan to participate in an accountable care organization within the next year.

Hiring medical students can help lighten your workload, but liability risks mean that you can only use them in specific scenarios. Discover what tasks you can assign to them.

The holidays are a time when many of your employees may want to take time off. Discover whether you need to compensate them for this time.

There's only one way to deal with a confirmed problem employee. Find out what it is.

A look at Medical Economics' EHR Best Practices Study shows that integration is continuing, but room for improvement still exists.

Implementation isn't the only thing that you need to do to successfully use an electronic health record system. Here's a look at what you need to do to measure productivity.

John A. Graves, PhD, discusses the lessons about healthcare reform that Massachusetts can share as the Affordable Care Act is implemented across the United States.

As a doctor, you will get many offers for financial advice. See what you should know before deciding on an adviser.

In January, 10 of 15 Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions will take effect for 2013. Compiled by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, here's a snapshot of the key provisions of 2013.

Suspicious that an employee is using sick time as vacation time? See why you need to have well-constructed policies in place.

Two physician in our EHR study share key lessons about EHR implementation.

The word inheritance can mean many things to different people. Find out how you can ensure that your inheritance is well-used.

Fatigue, physical or mental impairment, distractions, multitasking, and interruptions were factors in several of the closed liability cases that have been studied by The Doctors Company since 2010. The malpractice insurer has been tracking human factors as risk management issues.

Far fewer students are pursuing general medical studies today than when internal medicine primary care programs were created in the 1970s, but internal medical students in primary care programs are still more likely to enter general internal medicine practices than students in categorical programs, according to a new study published by researchers from the Mayo Clinic.

Despite their perceived status as role models, healthcare workers frequently fail to adopt behavior that's more healthy than the rest of the population, according to research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Physicians whose patients had not filled prescriptions for statins for lowering their cholesterol levels 2 weeks after they were prescribed were successful in cutting primary nonadherence rates by using a strategy of automated phone calls and letters, according to a new study.

Primary care physicians (PCPs) accept fewer Medicare and Medicaid patients than specialists, reveals a new report, which also predicts an overall decline in acceptance rates of government insurance programs across the nation once the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is fully implemented.

One-third to one-half of several routine diagnostic tests were repeated on Medicare beneficiaries over a 3-year period, according to a new report.

The continued rollout of the Affordable Care Act is just one of the challenges on the table for physicians in 2013. Read about four others sure to be on your mind.

Medicare Part B was rated highest among payers by providers for overall satisfaction, according to the newest version of an annual study from MGMA-ACMPA.

If an employee cannot meet practice standards, you are able to terminate their employment.

Spear phishing is a new way that hackers obtain patient data. Learn how to protect your practice's records.

The biggest reason to adopt technology isn't that the government wants it. It's to keep up with what your patients want.

Len Nichols, PhD, talks about the biggest issues facing the healthcare system, the role of smaller practices in new models, and the timeline for when these new models will be deployed.