Practice Management

Take steps to help prevent employee embezzlement. Find out the warning signs on how to detect fraud.

Medical Economics readers discuss the seeming impossibility of seeing 10 patients in an hour while still providing quality medical care.

Do you work hard maintaining your hospital privileges? One Medical Economics board member argues that it isn't worth it.

The National Committee on Quality Assurance has released a new ranking of nearly 500 private health plans.

Ohio Department of Health Director Ted Wymyslo, MD, talks about why the state has prioritized implementation of the Patient-Centered Medical Home concept.

Here's a way to manage costs in your practice.

Nurse practitioners do not belong at the helm of Patient-Centered Medical Home and should not be permitted to operate independent of physicians, states a new report from the American Academy of Family Physicians. The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners disagrees.

Lifetime earnings for primary care physicians average as much as $2.5 million below specialist peers, according to a new study.

PCPs under financial stress who don't currently use EHRs are split on whether implementation will help.

A series of new reports from Health Affairs examines new innovations in replacing fee-for-service payment models.

Nearly 70% of medical students say medical school needs to provide more training relating to practice management and ownership, according to a recent survey.

Only 11% of Americans have a high level of understanding of the key aspects of federal health reform, despite substantial media coverage in the 2-plus years since the legislation's passage.

Visits to retail clinics quadrupled from 2007 to 2009, and up to 40% of their patients paid out-of-pocket for their care despite reporting they had a primary care physician.

Health providers are in danger of being stuck with $11 billion in Medicare cuts beginning in January when automatic federal spending cuts are due to take effect, the White House warned in a report.

The American Academy of Family Physicians is asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to adopt several short- and long-term strategies that strengthen the Medicare program through primary care enhancements.

Want to know whether you and the other healthcare professionals and pharmacies in your area are at the forefront or lagging when it comes to adoption of electronic health records and e-prescribing? Now you can, thanks to a new tool from the federal government’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).

Practice administrators working in smaller practices saw their incomes increase in 2011, but managers of larger practices experienced a decrease, according to the Medical Group Management Association.

Insurance companies must more actively engage physicians in quality measurement programs, suggests new research.

The financial incentive of shared savings may lead to "coding biases" whereby practices list more diagnoses per patient visit than they otherwise would, according to a recent study.

House calls can reduce rehospitalizations and boost satisfaction for high-risk patients, but they don't do much to reduce costs, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care.

The American Medical Association (AMA) has asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to continue working on its proposed 2013 Medicare physician fee schedule.

The second stage of the government's program to incentivize physicians for implementing electronic health records systems will not begin until 2014, according to final rules recently released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

Nearly one-third of Massachusetts residents report that insurance companies are most responsible for their difficulty in accessing healthcare.

In the next 3 to 5 years, about 57% of employers say they will use integrated delivery models to improve the effectiveness of primary care, according to a new report from Aon Hewitt, a human resources and consulting firm.

What can you do to keep patients happy? Medical Economics asked the practice management experts for their advice.

ACA wants to build health information exchanges to connect Medicaid providers. Learn what you need to know about them.

Thinking of the selling products in your office? Here's what you need to know before taking the plunge.

George G. Ellis Jr., MD, FACP, recommends two reference apps and a medical calculator.

You already like your current software, but imminent electronic health record system implementation requires a different program. Here's how to avoid entering information more than once.

If your business slows, you might consider giving free consults. Find out why this might not be the best idea.