American Association for Physician Leadership

January/February 2019

Volume 34, Issue 4

January/February 2019

This article is designed to give the reader a better understanding of how to stay compliant with requirements from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the office, how regulations and recommendations differ, how to prevent exposure in...

January/February 2019

This article argues that empathy is a practice management essential, and it urges medical practice managers to encourage, foster, and teach empathy to their employees.

January/February 2019

Recent years have seen a noticeable increase in practice mergers among physician groups.

The ever-evolving reform of the U.S. healthcare industry has provoked a lot of uncertainty among private practice physicians. Some practices are content with no...

January/February 2019

When we write about “best-run medical practices,” we’re talking about the practices that excel in more than one of these four measurable areas:

  • Profitability and cost control;
  • Efficiency and productivity;
  • Revenue cycle measures (accounts receiv...
January/February 2019

This article discusses applications of virtual reality technology in the management of various medical conditions.

January/February 2019

This is the third article in a series of three that deals in detail with the process of developing physician employment agreements.

January/February 2019

This article discusses the Deming principles and their application to modern healthcare.

January/February 2019

Inclusion behavior is a leader behavior that can improve team effectiveness and process efficiency. This article describes that behavior and five ways it can be implemented to achieve greater organizational success.

January/February 2019

Emergency department (ED) usage has been rising steadily, with overcrowding becoming a significant problem in providing patients with quality healthcare. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors that influence patient usage of the ED.

January/February 2019

This article intends to familiarize clinicians with MACRA, and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System pathway, and provides valuable resources and recommendations for clinicians to maximize reimbursement and succeed under MACRA.

January/February 2019

The mental health care of patients should be comprehensively documented in primary care medical records, including coordination of services with other providers.

January/February 2019

In order to get paid for the work they do, doctors and their staffs must stay informed regarding all the new regulations presented by the government and third-party payers. Audits improve the chances that your group is compliant with Federal and stat...

January/February 2019

Within the past decade, healthcare has shifted toward a pay-for-performance model where health plans now utilize tools such as the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) to assess an institution’s performance and patient satisfacti...

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