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PRACTICE MANAGEMENT |
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New HIPAA Regulations Place Providers and their Business
Associates at Significant Risk |
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Achieving “Meaningful Use” of Electronic
Health Records |
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Patient Collections: Retaining Patients, Even When
They Owe |
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Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Fact Sheet - 2010 |
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Making Collection Calls the Right Way |
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Guide for Using Practice Analysis Ratios |
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10 Best Practices for Selecting EMR Software |
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Checklist for Practice Management Success |
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Medical Practice Costs Are a Challenge... Are We Up
For It? |
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Questionnaire for Evaluating Your
Office Collection Policies |
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Why Doctors Should Outsource Their Billing |
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Suggestions for Keeping on Schedule |
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Use the Personal Touch in Developing Referral Relationships |
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Top 10 Electronic Medical Record Software Features
for every Physician |
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Assigning Business Responsibilities to Physicians
in a Group Practice |
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Staff Wages Table |
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Selecting an Outside Billing Service |
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Valuation of Accounts Receivable |
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EMR, EHR, and "Meaningful Use" |
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Patient Satisfacton Survey |
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Steps for Developing a Medical Group Practice |
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Checklist for Evaluating Your Insurance Billing |
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Quality, Defensibility, and the Electronic Medical
Record |
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Measuring the Quality and Integrity of Certification
for Medical Office Professionals |
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Understanding the New Medicare's E-Prescribing Incentive
Program |
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Proper Incident-To Billing: Avoiding Pitfalls that
Could Paralyze Your Practice |
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Assessing your Patient Interaction Skills |
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Ten Commandments for Telephone Collections |
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Keeping Negativity in the Workplace at Bay |
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What You Don't Know About OSHA Can Hurt You |
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General Criteria for Selecting EMR Software |
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Medical Software - Time to Change? |
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35 Ways for a Medical Office to Aggravate and Lose
Patients |
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Appraisal of Medical Practice Value |
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Building Profitability |
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Reducing Overhead by Expanding your Schedule |
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Denial Rates on Charges Submitted for Medicare Services |
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Sixteen Questions for Conducting Your Own Financial
Audit |
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Thoughts on Being a Doctor: 7 Tips for Assessing Trends
and Knowing Your Friends |
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Secrets of Choosing Medical Software |
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Checklist of Precautions Before Selling a Practice
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Fifty-Three Features of a Patient Friendly & Professional
Looking Medical Office |
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Directory of Vendors for Electronic Medical Records
Systems |
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Top Practice Management Seminars for Physicians and
Their Staff |
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Resources for Patient Health Education Materials |
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Get the Most from Receivables |
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The Watchful Eye of the Government - Understanding
The Office of Inspector General Work Plan |
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Ten Shortcuts to Success as a Supervisor |
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Wal-Mart Way |
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PHYSICIAN RELATIONS |
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How Health is Your Physician Relations Program? |
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The Indifferent Physician |
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Are Hospitals and Physicians Ready to Disclose Financial
Relationships? |
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Top 50 Activities to Support Physicians and their
Practices |
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Assigning Business Responsibilities to Physicians
in a Group Practice |
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Common Practice Management Problems in Physician Offices |
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Physician Satisfaction Survey |
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Consider the Risks for Physicians Left out of the
Loop |
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Tips for Physicians When Speaking to Groups |
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Due Diligence in Practice Acquisitions and Physician
Employment |
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Physician Support Organizations |
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Physician Sales and Service Growing as Strategic Component,
Competitive Maneuver |
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The Physicians' Perspective on the Business Aspects
of Their Practice |
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How Does Your Practice Start-up Assistance Rate? |
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The Solution to Hospital Physician Relations is Management
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Physician Relations through Practice Management Education |
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Questionnaire from Specialists to Referring Physicians |
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Building an Effective Physician Sales Effort |
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Physician-Hospital Relationships - A Non-Eccentric
Opinion |
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Practice Lease: How to Employ Physicians without Buying
Their Practices |
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Traditional Characterization of Physicians and Managers |
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Steps to Starting a Group Practice |
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PHYSICIAN RECRUITMENT |
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Websites for Physician Employment |
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How to Assist a Physician in Starting Up Practice |
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The Physician Recruitment Site Visit: 3 Steps for
Organizational Credibility |
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Keys to Physician Prospecting: Striking Gold Requires
a Plan |
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Merritt, Hawkins & Associates A Review of Physician-to-Population
Ratios |
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Physician Supply Shortage Explained |
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Hospital Revenue Generated by Physician Specialties |
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CODING & COMPLIANCE |
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Are You Ready for ICD-10? |
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CMS Fact Sheet on ICD-10-CM |
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The Top 10 Dos and Don'ts for Medical Coders |
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Health Care Fraud Enforcement Efforts are on the Rise
and are Likely to Increase in the Coming Year |
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CMS Proposes Requirements for the Electronic Health
Records (EHR) Medicare Incentive Program |
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Pediatric Diagnosis Coding Update: ICD-9 2010 |
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Incorrect use of Modifier 25 & 29 |
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Typical Patient Time in Minutes Allocated by E &
M Codes |
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Understanding Physician Supervision Levels |
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Bell Curve for E/M Codes |