Practice Strategies

Winter 2012

Five Steps for Maximizing Revenue provides actionable steps for increasing profitability while still providing high-quality, patient-centered care - everything from proper scheduling and leveraging of midlevels to maximizing point-of-service charges and collections. We also look at two powerful tools - Gap Analysis and Root Cause Analysis - to get to the bottom of lagging financials.

Know Who's Talking About You takes an eye-opening look at the incredible rise of online physician rating and review sites. As today's increasingly vocal healthcare consumers share their opinions, it's vital for providers to manage what is being said about them and their practice.

Medicare Surtax provides timely strategies for minimizing this and other taxes over time.

Fall 2011

Are You Moving on Meaningful Use? provides a step-by-step guide to receiving federal incentive dollars for using Electronic Health Records (EHR) technology in measurable ways. Included is an overview of meaningful use criteria, as well as the practical steps involved in utilizing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' web-based Registration and Attestation System.

Steps to Becoming a Medical Home addresses the steps necessary to attain recognition as a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH). Accomplishing meaningful use of EHR can serve as a launching pad for becoming a PCMH. 

EHR and Malpractice provides an eye-opening look at how physicians who are not careful when using their EHR systems could actually increase their malpractice liability.

Is It Time to Wage a Collections Campaign? offers some timely collections strategies for managing overdue accounts.

Summer 2011

Back Office Breakdown takes a hard look at what is often a practice's biggest administrative headache - billing and collections. For many practices, outsourcing to a professional medical billing company is the answer.

Payment Reform: Are You Ready? addresses the challenges of bundled payments, accountable care and the medical home. In the wake of healthcare reform, a dramatic reshuffling is underway that directly impacts who is paying for the care you provide and how much they’re paying.

Competing for Patients: How to Win the Medical Arms Race provides guidance on how to compete for patients in the face of an all-out battle for patients as traditional in-patient procedures migrate to ambulatory surgery centers and physician practices.

Hospital Mergers: All That Glitters Is Not Gold looks at some viable alternatives to an outright sale or merger of your practice with a hospital or health system.