SPOTLIGHT -
MGMA 2022: Leadership vs. management
A medical practice needs to have both leaders and managers.
MGMA 2022: Emotional intelligence part of creating a thriving medical practice
Pay is important, but culture is crucial for recruiting and retaining staff.
Medical Economics is live at MGMA 2022
We'll have live coverage from the 2022 Medical Group Management Association's Leadership conference in Boston.
How to improve the prior authorization process for Medicare Advantage
Study looks at how prior auths help and hurt health care - and how they can be made better
Content marketing for medical practices
Why creating helpful content is a good marketing strategy to attract new patients and retain current ones.
Is the doctor’s office heading for extinction?
Survey shows that alternative sites for care are gaining popularity with consumers
Closing your health care practice: What you need to know
Follow these general guidelines to minimize the effects on your patients
Embracing value-based care
Six strategies for profitability with new payment models
Your patients aren’t taking your calls because they don’t know who’s calling
Survey shows that patients are dealing with so many phone scams that they miss calls from their doctors because the number isn’t identified
The future of medical practice marketing
How should your practice be raising patient awareness about the care and services you provide?
New study proves it: Primary care physicians have more work than time in the day
Primary care physicians get 24 hours a day — but would need at least 26.7 to provide guideline-based care to their patients.
Quality vs. quantity
How does quality compare between NPs, PAs and physicians? It depends on who you ask.
Strategies, not background, key for facilitators to help physicians improve practices
Facilitators dubbed more or less effective based on outcomes in federal heart health initiative.
Why you should optimize your EHR now
Even during market disruptions, physicians need to create efficiencies, cut costs, and boost financial stability.
Fixing medical care: The pride of ownership
Restoring the trusted patient-physician relationship.
How to handle chronically late patients
What can physicians do to prevent late patients from ruining their schedule?
Why medication safety is a problem and what providers can do about it
With the right medication management, physicians can make a difference
Despite interoperability challenges, technology can help advance hybrid care
Rise of telehealth in COVID-19 pandemic reveals flaws, but there’s potential to improve the patient experience.
AI, 5G, nanomedicine have potential to help patients or become cyber targets
Federal agency outlines potential vulnerabilities in cutting-edge technology.
Patient wait time for family practice appointments
Waiting time goes down from 2017 to 2022 to meet with primary care physicians.
Amplify a Culture of Safety in Your Medical Practice
Mutual respect is the cornerstone of a culture of patient safety.
Poll: Less than half of Americans think U.S. health care is handled well
Care for older adults is poorly rated by vast majority
Appointment wait times drop for family physicians, indicating shift in care
Study examines how long it takes to see a physician across United States.
Americans are willing to pay more for quality care
Study shows that patients are also willing to travel some distance to seek out the best price of care
Physician-patient face time increases over 40 years, but not necessarily for primary care
Minutes in the visits, visits in a year all are factors affecting amount of time spent with patients.
Whole-person health is the key to reducing disparities and driving patient trust
As we continue to face the COVID-19 pandemic and its long-term consequences, it is more important than ever for providers to build trust with patients.
Practices need — and patients deserve — ‘whole health’ data
Many practices have yet to access the data with the greatest potential to impact patient outcomes and their own financial success.
New E/M billing guidelines rewarding longer patient visits
Time-based visits gain financial advantage over medical decision-making in some circumstances
5 best practices for cleaning a medical office
A clean office is not only necessary for patient health, it's also good for business
Are primary care physicians being replaced?
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants keep taking on more primary care responsibilities, often without supervision of a doctor
