Practice Management

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.

More than 10% of physicians admit they’ve told patients something they knew wasn’t true. Find out who among your colleagues is most likely to fib, and why.

In a survey pitting Medicare against Medicaid and commercial payers, see which group healthcare providers say most often reimburses to expectations. The answer may surprise you.

Physicians now have a 4-year window to pass board certification, the American Board of Medical Specialties announced. Find out what drove the policy change, and who it could hurt most.

Out-of-network physicians who billed the insurer from 1994 to 2009 could recoup more than half of their lost payments. Even if you didn’t file a claim, you may be eligible.

Practices report widespread claims denials since adopting the HIPAA Version 5010 transaction standard, MGMA says. Learn more about the kinds of errors practices are seeing.

Learn how to get the best employees in today's economy.

See how your medical practice can develop a better system for returning phone calls from patients.

Learn how to balance lower-cost and higher-cost patient appointments.