Practice Management

Understand your rights regarding patients who refuse to pay their deductible expenses.

Six health plans in New York's Hudson Valley paid $1.5 million to 236 primary care physicians in 11 practices that achieved patient-centered medical home recognition from a national nonprofit organization.

Seventy-three percent of Americans surveyed would use a secure online communication service to make it easier to get lab results, request appointments, pay medical bills, and communicate with their doctors' offices.

This article on how to keep your practice running smoothly focuses on billing, collection, filing and other functions.

Know whether your disability insurance policy will cover you while working abroad.

Many doctors would like to manage their own investments but lack the time, energy or expertise to do so. Instead, often they seek out an investment adviser they think they can trust to handle their money.

Half of Americans oppose the "individual mandate" clause in the healthcare reform law that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance but 71% agree that healthy people should buy insurance to help pay costs for those that are sick.

To effectively build your practice, it's important to look at a growth plan in the context of the factors you encounter every day.

Learn how to handle the decision to buy an electronic health records system.

In today's world of medical marvels, it's easy to forget the basics and be seduced away from the fundamentals of patient care.

As a primary care physician, you're also a business person, with at least some responsibility for managing the practice's finances, and all the responsibility for managing your own.

Are you ready to deal with the vast amount of information available to your patients in just seconds, thanks to technology?

The five largest publicly traded health insurance companies reported combined profits of $11.7 billion in 2010.

Learn about the telehealth services that Medicare added for 2011.

Author recalls the "go-live" day for his practice's electronic health records system.

The author reflects on his role as patient advocate even when it comes to death certificate forms.

Letters discuss the relationship between primary care physicians and specialists, electronic health records, solo practice and patient perspective on physicians.

Only 14% of patients get their medical records electronically from their physician?s offices, and 30% don?t know why they would need to do so, finds a new report by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health Research Institute. The finding has implications for you and your peers in practices and organizations that hope to reap federal stimulus payments.

One community planned a 1-day screening event for the 14,000 homeless who live on the streets and in shelters in Houston, Texas.

The author's first step into beginning the journey into the new world of the electronic health record was to buy Windows for Dummies.

Understand service corps work's impact on tax relief.

How can a practicing physician cope with being out of the office for months?

As a doctor, you can still refuse to perform abortions and sterilizations on moral grounds, but you can't refuse contraception and family planning services under a new rule from the HHS.

More than 21,000 providers registered for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive programs in January, and four states reported initial Medicaid incentive payments totaling $20.4 million.

The use of locum tenens is rising, underlining the ongoing shortage of doctors nationwide.