Practice Management

The feds closed two fraud investigations as part of a crackdown on healthcare crime. Find out what tipped them off, and see if your colleagues are among the accused.

Find out if calling your patients by their full names is a violation of HIPAA ... or just plain rude.

Only one in seven errors, accidents, and other events that harm hospitalized Medicare patients, is recognized and reported, federal investigators say.

See why you should think about taxes when it comes to retirement planning.

The TEXAS Consumer Health Assistance Program, which helps consumers find affordable health insurance, is expected to close due to lack of federal funding.

Collecting copays can be a hassle for your practice. But waiving them can get you in hot water.

Learn how to ensure your practice survives a disaster like the death of an owner.

Discover how the tax code could make uncompensated/undercompensated care a thing of the past.

Healthcare spending saw its second consecutive year of slow growth in 2010, mostly due to the poor economy, according to government analysts.

A majority of healthcare providers think primary care physicians (PCPs) will be worse off after all aspects of healthcare reform are implemented than they are now, according to a recent survey by Managed Healthcare Executive.

Get creative and make this your medical practice's most successful year yet.

Computer viruses can grind your practice to a halt and open up the possibility of lawsuits. Learn how to keep your system virus-free.

A frivolous lawsuit is a doctor's worst nightmare. Here are some alternative strategies to fight back against those so-called expert witnesses-and the victory stories to prove they work.

Income alone doesn't mean financial success, especially if emotional investing is clouding your judgment.

Questions include claim issues with 5010, RAC demand letters, and telehealth services. Find out the answers to pressing coding questions.

Letters discuss how EHR systems affect workload, and why private solo doctors may soon be extinct.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) says new rules governing electronic funds transfers, along with other changes that make it easier to check patients' health coverage eligibility and the status of claims, will save the national healthcare system more than $16 billion over the next decade.

Strategies implemented before your tax liability is set in stone could make you rich in the long run.

In tough economic times, the rules of retiring and selling your practice have changed. See what you need to ensure an orderly transition.

Prompted by the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to create a mobile app to help it gather information and send out alerts about adverse reactions to experimental medications prescribed during a public health crisis.

The rate of death from cancer in the United States continues to drop, the American Cancer Society reports. See which populations are having more birthdays.

Discover a tool known as the Monte Carlo simulation and how it can help you plan for retirement and ease your worries about depleting your savings.

Physicians should base their advice on what's best for the patient but also consider the cost of treatment, according to the latest edition of the American College of Physicians Ethics Manual.

Practices panicking about the impending transition from ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes to the avalanche of data in ICD-10 may be able to breathe a sigh of relief.

The vast majority of doctors own and enjoy Apple iPads, but few use them at their practice, according to survey results released by a market research firm.

Disappointed, but not surprised was the reaction of the American Academy of Family Physicians president after Congress passed legislation last week which saved Medicare payments from a drastic cut, but didn’t solve the underlying problem.

Nearly half of physician practices use electronic health record systems, but primary care physicians are not among the top or bottom users, according to survey results by a market research firm.

More osteopathic medical students are headed to family medicine post-graduate training than any other specialty, according to the American Osteopathic Association.

Virginia physicians are sharing messages, patient records, lab results, dictated reports, discharge summaries, and other scanned documents with a secured statewide messaging service that launched this month.

Family physicians provide more care to rural areas than any other specialty. See how education is driving this development.