Practice Management

Collections are an important part of your business, but it's easy for the system to be ineffective. Learn about how to optimize your office's cash inflow.

Information integration fosters collaboration, not combativeness. Find out how meaningful use stage 2 will further link doctors and insurers?if they let it.

The clash over delaying the ICD-10 compliance deadline continues, pitting physicians against the HIT industry. See what has one group calling the situation "catastrophic."

A physician's electronic access to records increases the number of redundant tests ordered. Discover why earlier studies reported the opposite, and what this means for healthcare costs.

Would you recommend your job to someone else? Are industry changes pushing you to retirement? If you no longer see medicine as your calling, a new study shows you?re not alone.

A recent study showed that one demographic is less likely to take you to court. Find out why you should assuage your malpractice fears by accepting these patients.

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.