Practice Management

Get your questions answered on coding and billing skills, as well as what to consider before taking the job.

IRA conversion, practice buying considerations are addressed

Survey shows British PCPs feel they spend more time looking at computer screens in the exam room than they do with their patients.

Get your questions answered on coding and billing skills, as well as what to consider before taking the job.

No one educates young physicians on how to tell your own family that someone is dying or how to balance your grief and sadness with your family's request for medical knowledge.

Technology has improved medical care immensely in the past two centuries, yet the profession struggles with how to use it most effectively.

Although much attention is being paid to software solutions, gadget and tool providers continue to release new equipment options.

Various areas of coding, including PQRI measures, ophthalmology consults, are addressed

Get your questions answered on how to become a better manager, and how to cut down on training time for new employees.

Government's fiscal policy can positively and negatively impact economy.

First-year enrollment in U.S. medical schools up 2 percent

What to do with presented with requests from insurance companies for more patient information

In the past decade, there was a sharp increase in medical liability premiums, but recently, malpractice insurance has started to level off, indicating a potential new trend.

Get a head's up on efficiency basics.

Practices making the plunge into electronic health records prior to the final definition of "meaningful use" should require the EHR contract guarantee the system will meet those requirements.

Economic and health reform uncertainty have more primary care practices considering selling to hospitals, according to discussion at the 2009 Medical Group Management Association annual conference in Denver last month.

Medicare Part B causes medical groups the least amount of hassle, according to a survey of 1,700 practices released at the Medical Group Management Association?s annual conference in Denver last month.

Inform your malpractice insurance carrier any time you have suspicion that a patient is considering a lawsuit.

Supplies in your practice can cost more than you think.

Allowing a doctor to bill for a discharge the night before it occurs prevents a situation in which patients are occupying hospital beds solely in wait of a physician.

The author describes feeling busy and bored - the perfect recipe for burnout - until a reacquaintance refreshes his perspective.

Holston Medical Group employs team-based strategy to treat patients with cardiometabolic disorders.

HSAs are a tax-free, interest-bearing investment tool in which funds deposited can be spent only on qualified health services.

As healthcare enters a critical stage, Medical Economics will continue to provide information on practice management, patient care and personal and professional finances.

Patients are willing to use e-mail and physicians' websites to communicate with their doctors in an effort to save time, as long as they do not have to pay for the ability.