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No one likes being surprised when tax time rolls around. Find out how you can effectively plan ahead.

One of the worst-case scenarios for any physician is facing a disability. Find out what you can do to help minimize potential disruptions.

With all eyes on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, few are seeing why antitrust laws could frustrate reform.

If you've been thinking that fewer of your patients are obtaining health insurance through their employers, you're right. Employer healthcare has been declining for a long time, though disproportionately more for some groups of patients.

After 2 years of increases, the number of U.S. medical students choosing internal medicine residencies has plateaued, concerning the American College of Physicians.

Proper training for employees ensures a well-run practice. See what you can do to ensure that a new receptionist can handle making a good appointment schedule.

One doctor recounts a special patient suffering from Alzheimer's who helped him realize how past events, especially John F. Kennedy's assassination, can continue to resonate decades later.

The California legislature is considering steps to address the state's physician shortage, including medical student loan repayment plans and enhanced telehealth services.

Learn why making your estate the beneficiary of your IRA might not make the most financial sense.

Independent healthcare has some daunting foes: insurance industry and government-created acronyms. Acronyms represent the best and worst of healthcare today, and now is the time to make sure they don't get out of control.

Are commercial payers asking if you'll join their networks? Discover what you should look for to determine if joining the network is right for your practice.

Discover the ins and outs of what needs to be done when you inherit an IRA.

In this installment, you'll learn whether writing just the code without an explanation in the assessment/plan section is adequate. Find out the answer to this pressing coding question.

Recouping money for emergency care you have already provided is a difficult task. See what one doctor did when he decided that he could no longer afford it.

Finding a financial adviser who you can trust can be a monumental task. Learn why finding a good financial adviser might be one of the best decisions that you could make.

Figuring out the best compensation model for your practice can seem daunting. Discover why the solo practioner model might be your best bet, even if you're in a large practice.

In the ever-changing world of healthcare, hospital CEOs can see hiring physicians as a curse. Find out how you can turn it into a blessing.

The Illinois state legislature is considering doubling the state's annual physicians' license fee-used to pay for regulatory enforement of the profession-to $200.

Questions include details regarding issues getting claims processed under 5010 and the new implementation date for ICD-10. Find out the answers to your pressing coding questions.

Thinking about joining a hospital-owned physician practice? Find out what questions you should ask before making this decision.

Clasifying a part-time employee can pose a challenge. Discover the distinctions to be made between employee and independent contractor.

The go-live date for ICD-10 may be pushed back further, to October 2014. Even so, one expert says you should start making the change sooner rather than later.

Is the Patient-Centered Medical Home model everything it's cracked up to be? It's too soon to know for sure.

As if your waiting room isn't crowded enough already, a new study predicts that the shortage of primary care physicians (PCP) could be made even worse by President Barack Obama's proposed budget.

Not enough of you are presenting your coronary stent patients with ways to avoid the procedure, according to a new study.

If your practice operates as an S corporation, you'll want to know which misclassifications are especially concerning to the IRS.

Stark II rules play an important part in determining relationships between physicians and hospitals. See what you need to know about them.

No one likes to be audited by the IRS. See why operating your practice as a corporation could lessen the risk.

Inherited IRAs come with their own set of rules. Learn why you should start withdrawiing funds from the account soon after inheritance.

Intentionally or not, your practice doesn't always completely safeguard your patients' privacy. Learn what you can do to better protect that confidentiality in the future.