Managing Your Practice
Managing Your Practice
Be alert for embezzlement
Embezzlement remains far more common in medical offices than generally assumed - and it often occurs in full view of physicians.
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Paid (and unpaid) time off
A major issue with PTO is the possibility that employees will resist staying home when they are actually sick.
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Long-term care insurance
To be sure, there is considerable debate about whether LTCI is worth the cost.
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Review your insurance
Malpractice insurance requirements will remain fairly static throughout your career, but other insurance needs evolve over time. A good example is...
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Keep your staff current – and happy
Like you, staff members provide better care to patients when they know the latest findings and techniques.
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Hiring the right employees
Many of the personnel questions I receive concern the dreaded “marginal employee” – a person who has never done anything truly heinous to merit...
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Sexual harassment: Prevention and defense
Medical offices are far from immune from harassment, of course, and the problem is not limited to staff interactions.
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Handling defamatory online reviews
The first thing to do before taking any action is determine whether that defamatory review is, in fact, defamatory.
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How to handle negative online reviews
It happens to all of us: You log onto the Internet one day and discover a scathing review from a disgruntled patient or family member.
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Firing patients
As with pretty much everything in a private practice, accurate and written documentation of dismissible behavior is essential.
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Terminating an employee
Make it clear, when necessary, that the decision has already been made, so arguing or pleading will change nothing.