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Ensure better reimbursement through negotiation.

This author had no bag of medical administrative tricks to deal with the new of his mother's Lou Gehrig's disease.

Letters discuss bureaucracy in medicine, the case for medical courts, x-rays and medicine.

From the day we sign our first lease, most of us in business are intimidated by our landlords.

This author has been an advocate of healthcare even before it was fashionable.

Good news from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: The agency has decided to drop a rule that would have required you to sign requisitions for lab tests for your Medicare patients.

Primary care physicians want to deliver excellent patient care, but often find they are forced to focus on volume instead of quality to keep up with their insurance contracts.

The basic formula for figuring return on investment is simple.

Patient satisfaction builds practices' reputations.

A majority of medical groups stated that critical software upgrades to comply with new patient privacy standards have not been made and testing with health plans has not been scheduled.

How to address after-hours burglary.

How to collect funds without harming patient relationship.

Municipal bonds are many physicians' favorite investment.

What if you held the keys to rejuvenating your practice?

You encounter various situations in the practice of medicine, but what do they have in common?

When the author first started as a doctor, it was not unusual to find physicians, attorneys, CPAs, and businesspeople as hospital administrators and CEOs of insurance companies.

Medical groups raised questions about structure and revenue-sharing after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services unveiled its proposed rule about accountable care organizations.

Learn more about sharing expenses and revenues with other physicians.

Learn more about how CMS handles annual wellness visits.

In 2006, Massachusetts became the first state to pass healthcare reform and its law served as a model for federal reform last year.

A bill introduced in the Rhode Island House of Representatives would require health insurers to reimburse doctors at least 125% of Medicare rates.

As an independent practice owner, your revenues, and therefore your livelihood, come almost exclusively from insurance reimbursements and direct payment from your patients.

Weight loss services can produce new revenue streams that may offset, at least partially, stagnant or declining income from existing services, while helping patients with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular risk, high levels of cholesterol and other medical issues tied to obesity.

Selling a medical practice to another physician or partnership in advance of retirement can be a thorny and emotionally trying undertaking.

Medical societies want more flexibility in meeting the meaningful use requirements of the electronic health record incentive program.

In 2006, Dennis J Egitto, MD, who practices in Florida, considered switching to a concierge model.

Determine how to value the stock of a multispecialty clinic.

Is your practice using social media? Twenty percent of your patients may be doing so, and social media may be a way that you can reach them?and others.

Your patients belonging to a racial or ethnic minority, and those with the lowest annual incomes, may be less likely than others to adopt personal health records (PHRs), according to the results of research, titled ?The digital divide in adoption and use of a [PHR],? published in the March 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

Where does your group stand in transitioning to the new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Version 5010 electronic standards? If you?re like the majority of respondents to a recent Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) survey, it?s facing significant challenges in this effort.