Category Archives: Practice Management
HR Issues for the Small Practice: How NOT to Fly by the Seat of Your Pants
Many small provider organizations operate in a more informal manner, dispensing with certain formalities like job descriptions, time sheets, and established disciplinary policies, While we are not employment attorneys, we cannot over-emphasize how costly the lack of human resource policies … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Effective Cost Management for Your Medical Practice
Given our country’s limping economy, having an effective cost management plan for your medical practice is crucial to keeping your doors open. This article offers guidance on how to accomplish this without sacrificing quality of care to your patients. A … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Medical practice action plan: Overcome regulation overload
When you think of all the changes coming down the pike, it gets a little overwhelming, but don’t panic…. this article will ease some of the pressure and give you an action plan to make these transitions more bearable and/or … Read Full Post
Hospital-Acquired Medical Practices: Buyer Beware?
An article in Futurescan 2012: Healthcare Trends and Implications 2012-2017 outlines the huge shift in favor of hospital-owned medical practices. Those of us who’ve been around the block a time or two can’t shake the déjà vu of the 1990s … Read Full Post
Temporary Delay in Implementing Ordering and Referring Denial Edits
Due to technical issues, the implementation of the Phase 2 ordering and referring denial edits is being delayed. These edits would have checked claims for an approved or validly opted-out physician or non-physician. If either of these were missing or … Read Full Post
7 Ways to Maintain Patient Interaction in the Age of the EHR
A common criticism of EMR (electronic medical records) use in medical practices is that it causes doctors to become less engaged and impersonal. This causes frustration for all parties – patients and physicians – because doctors didn’t sign up for … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – How to Market Your Health Care Practice with an Email Newsletter
A great way to keep your patients up-to-date with the ever changing healthcare issues, trends & tips is by generating a newsletter. The fastest and least expensive method for circulating a newsletter is to send it via email; this saves … Read Full Post
Tips on Ordering and/or Referring Providers
UPDATE ON 4/25/13: CMS announced the delay of PECOS edits that would result in denial of home health claims & Medicare part B claims when the ordering/referring physician is not enrolled in PECOS. CMS will advise the new implementation date … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Physician Meetups Connect with Community, Attract New Patients
Do you want to save time, interact with the community and simultaneously bring new patients to your practice? This article provides creative create “meetups” either in-person or online and how you can implement this in your office today. Meetups are … Read Full Post