Managing Your Practice
Managing Your Practice
Hiring the right employees
What can physicians do to avoid “bad hires” in the office?
Managing Your Practice
Don’t forget HIPAA
In the struggle to understand and comply with new regulations, it’s easy to neglect older ones. Recently, I suggested reviewing your practice for...
Managing Your Practice
Contract negotiations
What to consider when negotiating a contract, including choosing the right attorney, “ambiguous provisions,” conditions of employment,...
Managing Your Practice
Estate planning
Use your birthday as a reminder to review your will and other aspects of estate planning.
Managing Your Practice
Appealing rejected claims
As third-party payers become stingier with their payments, it becomes more and more important to hold them accountable for decisions that impact...
Managing Your Practice
Should you continue to participate in Medicare?
Since writing about the new MACRA bureaucracy, and the Morton’s Choice facing private practitioners between Scylla (the Merit-based Incentive...
Managing Your Practice
How will Donald Trump change health care?
Much speculation has already been written on what a Trump administration may look like, but comparatively little has been said about the potential...
Feature
CMS offering educational webinars on MACRA
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is offering a pair of webinars aimed at helping physicians navigate the new regulation that...
Commentary
MACRA
Since yet another significant percentage of your Medicare reimbursements will be at risk under this new bureaucracy, an introduction to MACRA is...
Managing Your Practice
Don’t forget about OSHA
Given the bewildering array of new bureaucracies that private practices have been forced to contend with in recent years, it’s easy to forget...