Buying or selling a practice can be life changing. A host of legal and practical issues will confront you, and this article explores your options and establishes a starting point on where and how to begin.
Certain third-party vendors are now offering to “assist” practices by placing material and links associated with their services on the practice’s website. Vendors seeking to promote goods or services via the practice should never be given access to a...
This article explores common myths about clinical coding, identifies ways practices get into compliance trouble, and provides specific avenues to implement an effective coding compliance program.
We believe integrating some form of cultural awareness and competency training into the curriculum at the undergraduate medical education level would help prepare future physicians for an increasingly diverse patient population.
The healthcare industry is the #1 industry targeted by attackers. It is imperative for organizations to reevaluate the way they approach cybersecurity, rather than resting on their laurels in what is currently seen as the “new normal” security mindse...
The group of individuals you will find who are most bothered by medical malpractice and fraud, beyond the immediate victims, are the secondary victims: quality healthcare professionals.
Strategic management is all about positioning your company relative to your competitors so that your performance will be better than theirs. In Part I of this article, we presented the internal considerations for a successful strategy; in this part w...
When two or more members of the medical practice team are locked in a conflict, their animosity can turn a healthy working environment into a toxic space. That is why the medical practice manager needs to develop skills in conflict prevention, confli...
Research conducted by members of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians (recently renamed the Obesity Medicine Association) and others shows remarkable health benefits associated with wellness protocols that limit the intake of carbohydrates an...
Despite the need for comprehensive obesity treatment and community health initiatives, it remains a problem to financially sustain a program that receives low to no reimbursement for services and also commits to numerous mission-based community event...
