Practice Management

Dr. MedLaw: Photographing Patients

Sep 10, 2021

Doctors began photographing patients as soon as cameras were invented. For over a century, there...

Three Reasons Your Worst Patient Survey Fears May Be True

Sep 7, 2021

Many patient and staff surveys are so deeply flawed that they only provide the impression of...

CMS’s New CDSM Mandate & How it Can Affect Your Revenue

Sep 7, 2021

According to “Will your Medicare reimbursement survive CMS’s new CDSM mandate?” from MedCity News,...

Medicaid Claims Denials Lead to Dropping Physician Participation

Sep 3, 2021

According to a July 2021 study published by the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, “A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away,” both the costs for collecting claims and the rates of claim denial are...

COVID-19 Accelerating Demise of Physician Practices

Sep 1, 2021

Almost 70% of US physicians now work as employees of a hospital, health system, or private...

Financial Tips for Physicians Starting Their Careers

Aug 31, 2021

Completing your residency is a monumental accomplishment for aspiring physicians. After years of...

Ending Physician Burnout Global Summit: 3 Days in August to Recharge Physicians

Aug 31, 2021

You know the problem, join the solution Burnout is a problem that plagued healthcare...

Burnout Prevention: Maybe It’s Not Always About ’Keeping Your Wits About You When All Others Fail’

Aug 30, 2021

Arianna Huffington says breakdowns can serve a purpose Entrepreneur and businesswomen Arianna...

Tackling Patient Payments, and Resources to Improve Them

Aug 26, 2021

According to a March 2021 release by InstaMed, “Trends in Healthcare Payments Eleventh Annual Report: 2020,” payer trends in healthcare payments have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic compared with previous years....

Top Financial Apps for Physicians

Aug 25, 2021

For those family physicians who have a solo practice, managing finances can feel like a chore – a chore that goes undone for months. If you are not paying attention to where your money is going and how much, you could be in big...

Underlying Principles of Payment During COVID

Aug 23, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis has put many practices under great stress as far as payments as patients lose insurance coverage or cannot cover bills. However, it is essential to remember that the underlying principles in these situations...

Implementation of Remote Video Visits

Aug 21, 2021

This study focuses on The COVID-19 pandemic has carried remarkable difficulties to giving...

3 Things to Look for in a Remote Patient Monitoring Solution

Aug 20, 2021

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has proven to be a solid solution for helping seniors age in place without consistent trips to the doctor’s office, clinic, or emergency room. The COVID era has increased demand for the deployment...

Remote Patient Monitoring Cuts Unnecessary Urgent Care Visits

Aug 19, 2021

Low risk, high benefit an argument for broader implementation After ambulatory cancer surgery,...

Artificial Intelligence Tackles the Electronic Health Record

Aug 19, 2021

System from Stanford helps extract and organize scanned referral records, saving time for clinicians The electronic health record (EHR): Love it or hate it, it’s here to stay, but it’s a time suck. A clinician easily devotes 62%...

Q&A: Mask Mandates and Disability

Aug 19, 2021

Q: My patient who had a lobectomy 2 years ago for a lung abscess recovered well. She mentioned feeling short of breath when required to do more strenuous activities but that she could deal with it if she rested. She never...

Can You Give a Gift to a Patient?

Aug 17, 2021

If a patient is also a friend, you can give them a personal gift, but if you are considering general gifting, then you need to bear two laws in mind: the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) Law, which...