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Medical Economics convened a panel of experts to discuss the things you can control to strengthen your medical practice to withstand factors beyond your control. We share their advice related to operations, practice valuation, front office matters, and accounting and finances.

Consideration of how to handle regrets over the decisions of patients riddled with life challenges.

Through ZPIC audits, the government is becoming better able to successfully identify fraud, waste and abuse, and becoming more effective in successfully prosecuting those at fault.

Nearly a decade after implementing a policy of disclosure with offer of compensation for harmful medical errors, the UMHS has seen a reduced rate of claims against the system, lower liability costs, and shorter times to resolve claims.

Understand how Social Security tax payments work.

Understand legal responsibilities to patients once you sell your practice.

Adults suffering from chronic diseases or conditions are significantly less likely to have Internet access than are healthy adults.

Buying or selling a medical practice is a lot like buying or selling anything.

Letters address career contentment, electronic health records, and midlevels.

Physicians often code for the wrong place of service when submitting payment claims to Medicare, resulting in widespread overpayments, according to HHS.

Proper investment in the staffing and technology related to day-to-day operations can improve the impression your medical practice conveys and help insulate it from economic downturns and other events beyond your control.

How to defend against tax audit.

Follow the 10 "time commandments" to effectively manage your time and complete tasks.

Learn how to brand your practice.

One doctor recounts his recovery from a curious and not completely diagnosed illness.

Know your IT options when implementing an electronic health record system.

Learn about 401(k) interest before proceeding with plans to withdraw money.

Quality of care provided by foreign-trained physicians is no different than tha provided by U.S. trained physicians, according to a new study.

Nearly 61% of physicians age 55 and older have been sued, according to an AMA report.

The medical practice of the future may resemble the Santa Monica, California, multispecialty practice Oceanside Wellness Center, depicted on the show "Private Practice," according to one business consultant.

Monitor how tax laws change as you review your investments.

Americans spend 40% of their time online participating in social networking activities, playing games, or emailing. Almost 25% of the time online is spent with social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8%.

Americans are divided about whether broadband Internet access is an advantage when it comes to obtaining health information, according to the results a national phone survey by the Pew Research Center?s Internet & American Life Project.

Support and monitoring via the telephone for patients who have chronic heart failure helps reduce the risk of mortality from all causes, and hospitalizations related to the chronic heart failure, according to a study recently published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. These interventions also were found to improve patient quality of life, reduce costs, and improve evidence-based prescribing.

Fifty-three percent of those going online for health information report that they have discussed information they found online with their doctors, and 51% say they have searched for information on the Web based on discussions with their doctors, according to a new Harris Poll.

The American Board of Medical Specialties plans to incorporate the ?meaningful use? of health information technology into its maintenance of certification program.

The president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians said he was cautiously optimistic about final rules for "meaningful use" of an electronic health record.

Learn the detals of a buy-sell agreement.

Physicians who provided guided care, a model designed by Johns Hopkins University researchers for patients with multiple chronic conditions, reported higher levels of satisfaction with patient/family communication.

Not only are the majority of physicians practicing defensive medicine in the United States, younger physicians are taught to do so by mentors and peers, according to a new ebook.