Practice Management

The U.S. economy is in turmoil, real estate values are generally down, the stock market has not fully recovered, and T-bill returns are miserly. Investors are looking for alternative, advantageous opportunities.

Get your questions answered on coverage and filing limits.

Spring comes, the blood stirs, and physicians' thoughts turn to conventions.

Can you justify the time and cost away from your office to attend a conference? If you go, how do you get the most for your time and money?

The Michigan Medical Marijuana Act took effect in April 2009.

Get your questions answered on CMS and audit criteria.

Changing the model of physician inaccessibility we have come to expect not only has improved my patient care and led to an exponential growth of my business.

Get your questions answered on what parts of your business to analyze on a yearly basis.

Get your questions answered on marking up purchased services.

No matter where you practice or how well your practice is run, physicians all have one thing in common: the rising cost of everything!

Ten business days is the most time California private health plan members will have to wait for a non-urgent appointment with a primary care physician.

Understanding the status of consultation codes

Get your questions answered on handling an outstanding account balance.

Do not purchase the wrong electronic medical record (EMR) system.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released the proposed definition of "meaningful use" of an electronic health record system.

Get your questions answered on how to create effective to-do lists.

Medical Economics magazine asked 10 practices to reveal the best lessons learned from electronic health record adoption experiences.

Get your questions answered on office space organization.

The once private consultation between doctor and patient no longer exists.

The Great Recession is keeping doctors on the job longer, and they're not happy about it.

Field questions on Medicare claims limits

Eighty-five percent of healthcare providers believe that their ambulatory electronic health record software will let them meet the 2011 meaningful use deadlines being considered by the federal government, according to a report from research firm KLAS.

Get your questions answered on secondary insurance billing.

This year may be active in terms of changes to the tax code.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Maine launches a pilot program that offers online visits to patients of physicians at two medical centers.

A 21 percent reduction in physicians' Medicare fees was temporarily dismissed thanks to a defense spending bill signed by the President in December.

Brian Forrest, MD, explains how he arrived at a cash-only practice that does not accept insurance.

HHS began seeking bids to create a national, all-payer, all-claims database to use for comparative effectiveness research.

Get your questions answered on discharge letters.

Get your questions answered on how to charge people for their appointments in light of a tough economy.