Practice Management

As a primary care physician, this author says he has experienced a condescending attitude from physician specialists, and he sometimes feels that they look down their noses at those who are in primary care.

The author offers some tips to keep exam rooms and bank accounts full in light of today's foreclosures, layoffs and lost insurance from patients.

A San Antonio, Texas Accountable Care Organization with a network of Patient-Centered Medical Home clinics but no hospital provides comprehensive, efficient, quality care that improves outcomes, according to results of a case study.

The buyout of a senior partner does not have to be detrimental to your practice.

The online directory for physicians who accept Medicare has expanded to distinguish which doctors reported quality data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and will soon indicate which doctors prescribe electronically.

Physicians are unlikely to participate in mediation of medical malpractice lawsuits, which minimizes the chances that discussion of adverse events and medical errors can lead to improved quality of care, according to a new study.

Letters discuss ACOs, decision-making, and electronic health records.

Despite the predictions of many pundits, Congress' "lame duck" session was productive after all: Among other accomplishments, the long-awaited tax cuts are now law, at least through 2012.

Consider how other groups recruit new physicians when you find your practice in a similar situation.

In this second of two articles, the authors look at the methods used to value medical practices, the impact of antitrust laws on the pricing of doctors' services, how a hospital or managed care company exerts influence over practices in which they invest, and how doctors in independent practices can best evaluate a purchase offer.

This column addresses well visits that are combined with other services, coding for excisions and lesions, and providing hospital and office care on the same day.

This column presents tips to help you master two major skills involved in communicating with patients -- listening and providing informaiton -- and will provide other pointers.

Learn how healthcare reform taxation will impact your practice.

After reviewing thousands of medical charts, and interviewing hundreds of prospective clients who were the purported victims of medical negligence, general patterns of malpractice began to emerge that repeatedly formed the basis of successful claims against providers and healthcare facilities.

Lower-income families with high-deductible health plans are more likely to delay or forego care due to cost than higher-income families who have similar coverage, according to new research.

The healthcare world has seen major changes in the past 30 years that have led Wall Street and hospital systems to impose paradigm shifts on medical practices willing to accept their premises and terms.

The cost of inefficient healthcare claims processes, payment, and reconciliation is estimated to be between $21 billion and $210 billion, eating up to 10% to 14% of physician practice revenue, according to the American Medical Association.

Congress has delayed primary care's Medicare reimbursement cut for another year. Rather that this being cause for celebration, however, it simply represents the reality that had the cut gone through, there wouldn't be much incentive to stay in the practice of medicine-and Congress knows that.

The bigger and thicker your policy manual is, the more you may be choking the health and growth of your practice.

Surgeons married to physicians appear to face more challenges in balancing their personal and professional lives than do surgeons whose partners work in a nonphysician field or stay at home, according to a recent study.

Family physician Gregory Oliver, DO, has always had an interest in business, although it wasn't until his late 30s when he became an employed hospital physician that his interest deepened.

Letters discuss social networking and practicing solo.

An independent physician organization in Massachusetts representing 1,800 doctors and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Inc. signed a multi-year contract that pays physicians with a modified global payment model designed to encourage cost-effective care rather than reward doctors for the quantity of the care they deliver to patients.

Sigmund Freud regarded acting out as a clinical concept related quite specifically to psychoanalytic treatment. During treatment, patients' actions may represent the only way repressed memories and wishes initially find their way to the surface.

You can be prepared for increasing taxes.