Practice Management

A newly published study by Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers may lead to electronic health record (EHR) system improvements that facilitate your ability to follow up on your patients? abnormal test results?if vendors heed the findings.

Your physician colleagues in Michigan may be able to offer insights into American Medical Association subsidiary Amagine Inc.?s health information technology (IT) platform, Amagine, which now is available to physicians nationwide.

Primary care, as it is currently practiced, is unsustainable in the current marketplace.

Sometimes questioning the efficacy of a practice manager is not the best approach, as the problem may lie elsewhere.

It's important to consider ways you can practice without enduring the problems associated with third-party payers.

How to handle patient records if you depart the country to practice as a locum tenens.

Although it may not be for everyone, in today's economic climate, many medical practices are using "captive" insurance arrangements to stay competitive, reduce expenses, and reap tax savings.

The equipment used by primary care physicians grows more advanced by the day, but its rapid evolution also means you must think carefully about the risks involved in purchasing equipment.

Be aware of hiring pitfalls to avoid when staffing.

Learn how to stay organized to remain competitive.

More practices are choosing the extra lean model.

Understand whether claims will be denied if you use the GZ modifier.

Letters discuss geriatric medicine, rural family physicians, honesty, and bedside manner.

How to improve quality of service outcomes.

Consider the risks if you choose to drop a disability policy.

A majority of physicians believe more doctors will choose employment over independent practice in the next two to three years.

Physicians play a critical role in national and state economies, according to one expert.

Have you decided to practice medicine as an employee rather than a business owner?

The author promotes change to the current means of practicing medicine.

The author says he's been a self-proclaimed fan of The Who for decades.

When you're on Facebook or Twitter or using other social media, remember to be honest, respect privacy, and uphold the reputation of the medical profession.

Just in time to help you meet Medicare's June 30 deadline for starting to e-prescribe or face a 1% reduction in your 2012 payments, a newly updated guide to eprescribing is available with a plethora of useful information.

If one of your patients is treated in a hospital emergency department (ED), chances are you engage in very little communication or coordination of care with the doctors who provided the care. So says a new study conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) for the nonprofit National Institute for Health Care Reform (NIHCR).

Since passage of the Affordable Care Act last year, you've probably been curious to find out what shape accountable care organizations (ACOs) will take and how they will affect your practice. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) answered some of those questions recently, and raised more.

If your billing systems are not compliant with new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards by January 1, 2012, you will not get paid by Medicare. Even if you are compliant, you may still not get paid.