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Your practice management system is your healthcare practice’s pathway to the revenue stream.  Your biggest dollar investment is probably your practice management system (although now, your EHR and IT costs may exceed PM) Your primary contact with payers is your practice... Read More

One of the by-products of the Affordable Care Act, the so called Obama Care, is the rise of high deductibles.  High deductibles have always been around; the difference is this…..volume.  In most practices, the volume of high deductibles has been sparse as most patients are either... Read More

The health care law has altered the competitive landscape by encouraging a new wave of competitors and creating a marketplace that puts a much sharper focus on price, because individuals can so easily compare premiums on a single Web site. About a quarter of the insurers... Read More

Our final step in performing a performance management cycle concludes with stage 5- Rewarding. Incentives and acknowledgements provide positive reinforcements for achieving performance goals and accomplishing improvements.  For an employee, knowing that their hard work and... Read More

Developing employees’ skills and abilities, not only improves their work performance, but will simultaneously increase their job satisfaction. Developing is the third stage of the Performance Management Cycle. Stage 3 focuses on building an employee’s skill set and/or amending... Read More

Most medical practitioners originally trained in their subject in order to heal and help the sick.  Yet, an increasing number of those involved in the healthcare industry have discovered that they are expected to devote much of their time to organizing and coordinating their... Read More

The far reaching implications of your practice not being aware of and in tune with an aggressive compliance program can be well documented by the number of practices that have fallen prey to simply ignoring the obvious. Compliance programs are mandatory.  They must include... Read More

As Healthcare consultants, Medical Management Services is frequently asked to clean up messes.  It is the number one reason healthcare practices engage our services.  Accounts receivable messes, process messes, EHR messes; you name the mess; we have been called upon to clean it... Read More

In the blink of an eye……it was gone.  The motherboard on my laptop fried right after checking email and turning around to answer phone.  Upon turning back, the screen was black and there was a loud and persistent beeping.  What happened? Now what?  All my records stored on the... Read More

Part 3 of this Performance Management Cycle blog series discusses the second stage of the process- Monitoring. Once the Planning stage has been structured and finalized, healthcare managers must turn towards implementation and the monitoring process. Planning outlines the... Read More