Practice Management

One doctor offers her professional wishlist for 2012. See what she hopes will happen this year.

Learn what you need to use social media effectively for your practice

Questions include details regarding Medicare coverage of sexually transmitted infections. Find out the answers to your pressing coding questions.

See how HIE and HIT could be strengthening healthcare.

Learning an EHR-system is a process-and one that won't necessarily come quickly. Find out what kind of timeframe your practice will need to get tech savvy.

Find out why these healthcare and dependent care expense accounts are such a sought-after incentive for employees.

Physicians don't always tell patients about their financial relationships with drug and medical device companies or their serious medical errors, a new survey has found.

New technology allows for new relationships with patients. Find out how you can use intergrated EHR/PM systems to improve your practice.

See what you need to meet federal Medicaid incentive guidelines set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Learn how leaving your medical practice before 55 can incur sizeable penalties.

Selling a practice takes a few steps. See what you need to do now to show off what your practice has and attract the best buyer.

You only have so much time to spend with each patient and opportunities confront you at every turn for a single patient to monopolize your time. Discover how using your staff effectively can help solve this problem.

The rules governing noncompete clauses have been clarified by an advisory opinion from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Learn what this legal decision could mean for you.

In the first full year of healthcare reform, 3.6 million Medicare recipients saved $2.1 billion on prescription drugs, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Group practices need to set limits on spending. Find out an effective way to achieve this and cut down on unnecessary costs.

What does this Dr. Seuss classic have to do with the healthcare landscape and practice of medicine? Read to find out.

If your patients question your staff's abilities to help them with issues, read this to learn how to effectively sell your staff's abilities and knowledge to skeptical patients.

Private equity markets have grown substantially over the past few decades. Learn about the risks associated with these markets.

Discover why brokerage accounts can't be used to deal with IRA debts.

See what to do when you have earned the maximum Social Security entitlement. (Hint: The answer is not to stiff Uncle Sam on his cut.)

Your nurse practitioners and physicians assistants are valuable members of your team, so a raise might be in order. Clinical support staff members are in big demand.

Your patients are likely among the most satisfied patients in the world, but are not more likely to view America's healthcare system among the best globally, according to the results of a consumer survey released on March 13.

If you haven?t yet complied with HIPAA Version 5010 deadline, you have a little more time.

Small medical offices with one or two physicians in the practice are the fastest-growing segment for adoption of Electronic Health Records software, according to the latest results of an ongoing study by SK&A.

You may strive for satisfied patients, but a March study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine indicates happy patients are more expensive and don?t necessarily live longer.