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Medical Practice Archive
4/1/2008
Internal Control Measures for Smaller Clinics
Simple internal control practices can significantly reduce vulnerability to office embezzlements.
9/28/2007
Physician-Hospital Integration: The Consolidation Continues . . .
Discover what is driving the latest wave of merger-acquisitions and how both medical groups and hospitals can achieve the desired market alignment.
9/26/2007
Mining Revenue Cycle Opportunities in Health-System-Based Medical Practices
The front end of the revenue cycle offers the greatest potential for operational improvements when integrating formerly independent medical practices.
7/31/2007
Quality Quandary
Are you on track to establish a medical practice quality program?
9/19/2006
Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Changes Could Be Painful
Proposed changes to the 2007 MPFS could mean lower payments for diagnostic imaging services next year.
3/1/2006
Better Clinic Revenue Begins with Better Coding Processes
To improve revenue capture, focus on how your physician practice handles service coding -- and find ways to eliminate up-front errors.
11/1/2004
What's the Buzz About Provider-Based Status?
In this era of shrinking margins and downward pressure on reimbursement, providers will want to look for opportunities to optimize revenues and protect their bottom lines.
6/1/2004
Produce Smartly
Thriving practices that understand the need to “produce smartly” help their doctors become smart producers and put intelligent activities and business philosophies into place.
6/1/2004
Are Hospital-Owned Medical Practices Destined to Lose Money?
In general, because the majority of the independent groups are cash basis, losses are not generated. Physicians’ compensation is limited to the amount of cash available for distribution.
5/1/2004
Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2004 - Proposed Rule
With so much uncertainty regarding the final Medicare physician fee schedule for 2004, it may be wise to calculate the estimated range of monetary effect of the potential changes.
5/1/2004
Medical Practice Benchmarking
Medical practice benchmarking has become a useful tool for practice management and documenting accountability.
5/1/2004
How Much is Too Much Physician Compensation?
Does any employee of any company, including doctors in a medical clinic, only provide value to a business for the concrete services providing traceable revenues? Is this the only measure of our financial worth? It isn’t, and the law backs this up.