Practice Management

Public scorecards on individual doctors are just around the corner, and payers want you to supply the data.

You can get started for as little as $1,000-but first makesure payers in your area will reimburse for these services.

This is the 12th in a series of articles on specific ancillaryservices that can boost your bottom line and keep you and yourpractice busy in a competitive market.

This is the 11th in a series of articles on specific ancillaryservices that can boost your bottom line and keep your practicebusy in a competitive market.

These inpatient ob/gyns make life easier for office-based colleagues.

Medical record-keeping is part art, part science, and all about providing first-class patient care and maximizing reimbursements.

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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.