Practice Management

Learn why making your estate the beneficiary of your IRA might not make the most financial sense.

Independent healthcare has some daunting foes: insurance industry and government-created acronyms. Acronyms represent the best and worst of healthcare today, and now is the time to make sure they don't get out of control.

Are commercial payers asking if you'll join their networks? Discover what you should look for to determine if joining the network is right for your practice.

Discover the ins and outs of what needs to be done when you inherit an IRA.

In this installment, you'll learn whether writing just the code without an explanation in the assessment/plan section is adequate. Find out the answer to this pressing coding question.

Seventy rural healthcare providers will share $10.4 million in grants as part of a project to promote health and prevent disease. Find out which organizations are participating and which patient populations stand to benefit most.

Healthcare reform could save Medicare $200 billion, but it's not enough, CMS officials fear. Find out what else is required to guarantee the program's long-term health.

How can you keep the peace in a medical home with diverse stakeholders? This list of relationship characteristics of successful teams shows you how to create a happy work home.

Running an efficient practice with increasingly complex patients are primary care physicians? chief concerns, according to a survey. Find out whether you share these common worries.

Patients may be skipping visits to your office, putting financial health before physical health. See who?s cutting back most?and what services they?re forgoing.

More than 100 professional organizations bashed a proposed federal regulation that would require you to search for and refund Medicare overpayments. See all their gripes.

Recouping money for emergency care you have already provided is a difficult task. See what one doctor did when he decided that he could no longer afford it.

Finding a financial adviser who you can trust can be a monumental task. Learn why finding a good financial adviser might be one of the best decisions that you could make.

Figuring out the best compensation model for your practice can seem daunting. Discover why the solo practioner model might be your best bet, even if you're in a large practice.

In the ever-changing world of healthcare, hospital CEOs can see hiring physicians as a curse. Find out how you can turn it into a blessing.

The Illinois state legislature is considering doubling the state's annual physicians' license fee-used to pay for regulatory enforement of the profession-to $200.

Questions include details regarding issues getting claims processed under 5010 and the new implementation date for ICD-10. Find out the answers to your pressing coding questions.

Thinking about joining a hospital-owned physician practice? Find out what questions you should ask before making this decision.

Clasifying a part-time employee can pose a challenge. Discover the distinctions to be made between employee and independent contractor.

The go-live date for ICD-10 may be pushed back further, to October 2014. Even so, one expert says you should start making the change sooner rather than later.

Is the Patient-Centered Medical Home model everything it's cracked up to be? It's too soon to know for sure.

As if your waiting room isn't crowded enough already, a new study predicts that the shortage of primary care physicians (PCP) could be made even worse by President Barack Obama's proposed budget.

Not enough of you are presenting your coronary stent patients with ways to avoid the procedure, according to a new study.

If your practice operates as an S corporation, you'll want to know which misclassifications are especially concerning to the IRS.

Stark II rules play an important part in determining relationships between physicians and hospitals. See what you need to know about them.