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Physician and patient communication is at the heart of empowering positive outcomes. As payment models shift from payment for activity to payment for outcomes how to be a more effective at communication should be at the top of physician lists to improve. The basics of... Read More

Your practice has bought an EHR system.  Although you have struggled with implementing, providers and staff are now familiar with the product and you are using daily in your practice.  What’s the next step?  How can you use digital records to decrease cost and improve clinical... Read More

As we reflect on this past year and prepare for 2014; a time to pause and take realistic stock of our practices is in order. What did your practices do right this year?  How did you change and grow?  What technologies did you add to your practices?  How are they working for you? ... Read More

This article posting is from “The Profitable Practice” website and has some great information about medical billing. Medical billing reports are essential for diagnosing the health of a medical practice, and can save practitioners significant time and money. Reports... Read More

“A blend of the values, beliefs, taboos, symbols, rituals and myths all companies develop over time” is the way corporate culture is most often defined.  One thing is true, whether you formally define your culture or not, a corporate culture exists in your practice. In a recent... Read More

Are you too busy to take a hard look at your operations to be able to make the changes needed to make the impact your practice needs to be really financially and operationally robust?  Are you putting off inevitable decisions because daily routines do not give you the thinking... Read More

While this may seem to be a no brainer; too many times, employees are left to their own devices in completing their daily assigned tasks.  We hire people because we have a need; training gets cut short as the daily routine of the practice pace leaves little room for proper... Read More

In the time it takes you to read this blog, 57% of your patients will be asked a question about what doctor they use….why they like or dislike.  Do you know what they are saying?  If you don’t then you are not listening. Expectations are high, patients are smarter, the internet... Read More

As you look at your accounts receivables over the past 3 years, you have to see that the reimbursements are trending downwards.  Some specialties are more affected by these lowering trends than others; but all practices have to contend with lower reimbursements at the same time... Read More

Even as hospitals are cutting jobs because of decreased MCR/MCD payments, larger MCD populations in those states that opted in to ACA and baby boomers turning 65; practices and facilities are looking to consultants help them chart their way through the next 5 years of... Read More