Practice Management

Smaller practices are under siege in the West, but observers think they will endure in some form. Will your area feel the pressure next?

A summary of the "must-read" articles from the journals in that pile on your desk.

Use your staff and computer technology the right way, and you can reduce costly denials and boost collections.

By clearly outlining benefits, duties, and responsibilities, it can improve your staffers' performance and prevent lawsuits.

This is the fifth in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep you and your practice busy in a competitive healthcare market.

Doctors with aching fingers have found a good way to relieve their documentation woes. Will their idea work for you, too?

To a certain degree, that depends on your point of view: One person's dishonest claimant is another person's baffled patient in search of an explanation.

Answers to your questions about... informing family; announcing medical leaves

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Long before HIPAA, an embarrassing incident taught this doctor that some conversations should never take place.

This is the fourth in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep you and your practice busy in a competitive market.

According to the latest industry survey, liability rates are "leveling off" and future increases are likely to be more moderate.

Outlook

Not sold on EHRs? Think Katrina and Rita

Where self-interest and patient care merge

These software applications will help you practice medicine smarter, safer, and more profitably.

Anesthesiologists have reduced their premiums by focusing on safety. But is that a realistic model for primary care and other doctors to follow?

Don't risk denials by using outdated codes. Here's a rundown of the changes.

This is the third in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep you and your practice busy in a competitive market.

Answers to your questions about patients who lie; sending medical records; disposing of medical records; report an impaired driver

Not sold on EHRs? Think Katrina and Rita

This is the second in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep you and your practice busy in a competitive healthcare market.

This is the second in a series of articles on specific ancillary services that can boost your bottom line and keep you and your practice busy in a competitive healthcare market.

Health-plan employees are people, too. That's good to keep in mind during the next call about a denial.

By incorporating clinical measures into their EHRs some physician groups can simultaneously collect data and improve patient care.

If a patient fails to take medication prescribed before she sees the defendant-doctor, should the jury consider the noncompliance? One court says Yes.