Practice Management

The healthcare quality organization that sets the health insurance industry-accepted criteria for practices being recognized as a patient-centered medical home released updated guidelines on January 31.

The author's letter doesn't understate that life in medicine can be difficult.

In the military where I received my residency training and spent the first four years of my medical career as an attending physician, evaluations were sacrosanct.

Does your practice have a busy signal problem?

This physician recounts his days during residency where a delivery, usually a joyful occasion, turned terribly tragic in the case of the mother.

As physicians we groan every time a narcotic refill request crosses our desk.

Primary care physicians and specialists believe they are providing adequate patient data to each other during referrals and consultations, but an analysis of a survey published in January 10 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine reveals that perception may be incorrect.

How to avoid committing insurance fraud

Learn how to avoid license-related and other complications should you decide to move your practice out of state.

The much talked about support for primary care should be a relief to a debilitated primary care workforce struggling to survive a toxic payment and policy environment.

If you see patients in the hospital, it's important to realize that clinical language does not necessarily equate to coding language.

Looking into the future, the author sees storm clouds and tsunami waves ahead on the ocean of healthcare.

Medical errors are variably estimated to kill between 40,000 and 100,000 Americans yearly, and to injure four to five times that number.

Determine who owns the records when you buy a practice.

Research firm KLAS has released its 2010 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Professional Services report.

If you are negligent, you are responsible for any damages you cause to another person.

I am in a love-hate relationship with the pocket-sized technological marvel called the cell phone.

Four major primary care physician groups released the "Joint Principles for the Medical Education of Physicians as Preparation for Practice in the Patient-Centered Medical Home."

One surefire way to guarantee that you won't be paid? Don't send the bill.

Family Practice Associates in Delaware got a phone call back in 2007 that most practices never expect to receive.

E/M coding can be quite logical once you understand all of the components, according to the author.

Keep close watch on billing services if you note problems.

Common characteristics of better-performing medical practices include comparing individual performance to internal and external peers, employing midlevels, and ensuring efficient patient flow through the practice, according to an MGMA report.

When Bertha H Safford, MD, a family physician in Ferndale, Washington, received a grant 8 years ago to research ways of treating chronic illness, one of the requirements was to conduct shared medical appointments for patients with diabetes.

Letters discuss human side of patients, doctor-patient relationships, long-term care insurance, and electronic health records.