Ed Rabinowitz

Is your practice website compliant with guidelines set down by the Americans with Disabilities Act? Depending on the website content, it may or may not have to be. But even if you have no legal obligation, don’t you want to be known as a good business partner in your community?

Front office staff are the face of a practice. Patients form perceptions about the quality of a doctor’s work based on interactions with staff at the front desk. As such, the people you hire as front office staff might just be the most important staff members in the practice.

Excellent recordkeeping and policy handbooks are the heart of any practice. Too often, thorny situations arise without proper documentation, but potential lawsuits can be avoided with the aforementioned elements in place — maybe it’s time to have a conversation with a human resource professional or labor employment attorney.

As a growing body of research suggests a link between oral health and chronic health conditions, the benefits of physician-dentist partnership become even clearer.

“The industry will feel the reimbursement pain of not being prepared for the rapid rise of outcomes-based measures and the need for real-time clinical, administrative, financial and health device data to support these models,” says David Nace, MD.

After attending the U.S. Naval Academy and serving as a surgeon in Iraq, John-Paul Rue, MD, made the shift into the field of sports medicine.

Concerning incident-to billing, Carolyn Buppert says, “It’s not something people learn in medical school.” Buppert is a healthcare attorney who specializes in legal and reimbursement issues for nurse practitioners and physicians. She adds, “It’s not something that anyone is necessarily tested for.”

“I wanted to have a job where I felt I was serving the public good in a very direct way,” says Ramin Javahery, MD. “I wanted something that was much more direct and intimate.”

Competitive benefits, says Sarah Montijo, vice president of business analytics for The Halley Consulting Group, “can absolutely, and should, serve as a recruitment tool for both providers and staff.”

Two physicians have worked to incorporate technology that frees up doctors to spend more time face-to-face with patients.

Electronic health records (EHRs) can be beneficial for patient care, but at what cost?

Luis Macias, MD, FACS, may not have had an epiphany moment regarding his career decision, but he's always wanted to care for others.

Damon Raskin, MD, discusses strategies for improving health literacy in patients, which ultimately leads to less confusion and more filled prescriptions.

Naresh Rao, DO, FAOASM, unexpectedly fell in love with water polo, which eventually led him to becoming the Olympic Team USA water polo physician for the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Nearly eight out of every 10 people (77%) have experienced, or know someone who has experienced, trouble using their health insurance in the past year, according to a recent nationwide survey.

The United States Department of Agriculture recently announced plans to fund 80 distance learning and telemedicine projects in 32 states. The goal, in part, is to “connect rural communities with medical and educational experts in other parts of the country.”

Becca Rodriguez, DO, is an osteopathic physician certified in family medicine and sports medicine. Most recently, she served as the medical director for the high-performance center for Team USA at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

By now, the details of the cyber attack on Banner Health this past summer have been well-documented. Approximately 3.7 million patients, health plan members and beneficiaries, physicians and healthcare providers were impacted by the attack.

A poll this past summer by SERMO, a global social network exclusively for physicians, found only 10% of doctors reporting that patients “frequently” arrive at an accurate diagnosis after researching their condition online.

Hard work never hurt anyone. It’s an age-old expression, and one that Khurram Pervaiz’s father took to heart.

In July, the Department of Health & Human Services proposed new bundled payment models for cardiac care—the third bundled payment model in a little more than a year—and an extension of the existing bundled payment model for hip replacements and other hip surgeries.

Does a knee replacement in South Carolina cost the same as the same procedure done in New Jersey? Not likely. And that price differential likely exists just by driving across town in the same city.

If Dos Equis was holding auditions for the next Most Interesting Man in the World, Luga Podesta, MD, would be a shoe-in.

It’s not just Americans’ weight that’s increasing their health risks, it’s their sedentary lifestyle. Or more simply put, inactivity.

Today David Johnson, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon with MedStar Orthopaedic Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. And while Johnson is a highly accomplished surgeon, it’s perhaps the events that occurred prior to his becoming a surgeon that have impacted his life the most.

Every medical practice wants to reduce its overhead and retain more revenue. That goes without saying. So, why don’t more practices do that? Because it’s easier said than done.

One of the myriad of choices physicians face is whether to buy or lease medical equipment. But as Mark Hoffmann, vice president at Key Equipment Finance, points out, those who purchase medical equipment outright are in the minority.

Results of a recent study by Quest Diagnostics found that more than half of adults and 44% of children misused their prescription medications.

What is someone to do when their father wants them to be a physician, like him, but their mother doesn't want them to have the long hours lifestyle? Michael Sherling, MD, of Palm Beach Dermatology, and chief medical officer and co-founder of Modernizing Medicine, was able to make both work.

When virtual reality technology first came on the scene it most definitely targeted the gaming industry. Now hospitals and healthcare organizations are eager to test virtual reality in different situations.