Practice Management

Understand what to look for in a license agreement with an electronic health record vendor.

Understand the rules regarding online services.

Thirty-five percent of physicians reported receiving on-call compensation daily and 21% reported receiving an annual payment for on-call coverage in 2010.

Know what to ask when interviewing someone for tech support.

Various factors combine to influence a practice's stability.

How to address the excuse, "I have no time to exercise."

If you've adopted electronic health records (EHRs), you can now take the next step toward receiving Medicare's EHR incentive payments.

Ensure better reimbursement through negotiation.

From the day we sign our first lease, most of us in business are intimidated by our landlords.

Primary care physicians want to deliver excellent patient care, but often find they are forced to focus on volume instead of quality to keep up with their insurance contracts.

The basic formula for figuring return on investment is simple.

Patient satisfaction builds practices' reputations.

How to address after-hours burglary.

How to collect funds without harming patient relationship.

What if you held the keys to rejuvenating your practice?

You encounter various situations in the practice of medicine, but what do they have in common?

When the author first started as a doctor, it was not unusual to find physicians, attorneys, CPAs, and businesspeople as hospital administrators and CEOs of insurance companies.

Medical groups raised questions about structure and revenue-sharing after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services unveiled its proposed rule about accountable care organizations.

Learn more about sharing expenses and revenues with other physicians.

Learn more about how CMS handles annual wellness visits.

As an independent practice owner, your revenues, and therefore your livelihood, come almost exclusively from insurance reimbursements and direct payment from your patients.

Weight loss services can produce new revenue streams that may offset, at least partially, stagnant or declining income from existing services, while helping patients with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular risk, high levels of cholesterol and other medical issues tied to obesity.

Selling a medical practice to another physician or partnership in advance of retirement can be a thorny and emotionally trying undertaking.

In 2006, Dennis J Egitto, MD, who practices in Florida, considered switching to a concierge model.

Get necessary details on how to sell a solo practice.

Physicians traditionally have allowed insurance companies to dictate the terms of their contracts.

An effective growth strategy for your medical practice should begin with a comprehensive review of the practice's business plan.

Determine how to be appropriately compensated for combination of services provided.

A spree of specialty- and hospital-based practice acquisitions in 2010 by national corporations such as IPC and Mednax may have some physicians wondering whether the days of publicly traded practice management companies, similar to those in the 1980s and 1990s, will return.

Going cash-only in your practice means getting out of the insurance-billing business and collecting from patients.