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

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

Follow this step-by-step formula to find out, the author says.

The author had the same disease as some of her patients. Should she tell them?

An administrator with bad people skills can scare off good employees. Here's what to do if you've got a bully.

A young physician learns that the failure to care can be worse than the failure to cure.

By offering discounts, subsidies, and ongoing support, these groups aim to help members go paperless.

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare has offered to rent its EHR to community doctors. Read about their experiences.

By mistakenly predicting a patient's imminent demise, this doctor nearly ended up in court.

CMS will soon start issuing National Provider Identifiers to replace current PINs, UPINs, and most other IDs.

It could wreck your practice and your marriage, too, some say. Others say it's the only way to go.

Article six in our series tells you how to develop the systems and procedures you'll need to get your practice running smoothly.

When doctors meet a malpractice plaintiffs' attorney, they don't get a warm-fuzzy feeling. When they meet Bruce Fagel however, they don't know what to think because he's definitely "one of them," but also "one of us."

Maintain a few simple controls so staffers don't develop sloppy fiscal habits.

A well-designed, up-to-date, and error-free charge ticket improves Medicare compliance, coding, and, ultimately, collections.

Medical privacy protections, so stringently enforced under HIPAA, are being eroded, critics charge. And the culprit is the government itself.

By comparing your coding habits against these national norms, you can learn whether you're overcoding or undercoding.

A debate is raging among physicians about whether to charge patients for services that payers don't cover.

New respect for academic medicine; Helping your med mal carrier see reason; Why punish everyone? Confronting HMOs on coding

A physician discovers a possibly fatal blunder in his own mother's treatment.

Request for information; mail order pharmacies; postcard reminders; release of records

Rising costs, lower reimbursements, and needless regulations have many doctors feeling overwhelmed.

A Texas judge hits a high-profile lawyer with a $50,000 fine for filing a frivolous malpractice suit.