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Look Beyond Your Practice’s Bottom Line

Albert Y. Yu, Jonathan E. Rodnick

Two tools – gap analysis and root cause analysis – can work together to tell you where and why you might be lagging financially.

Choosing the Right Practice Entity

JEFFREY B. SANSWEET

How you structure your practice can have big consequences when it comes to liability and taxes.

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1-800-Chronic Disease Management

Roger Shenkel

Primary care physicians should be doing chronic disease management, and it should be a billable service.

LETTERS CODING & DOCUMENTATION

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Cindy Hughes

Coding an initial consultation | “Worried well” exam | Sports physicals for students | Billing for care plan oversight

NEWS TRENDS

NEWS & TRENDS

Humana settles with physicians | Health plans vs. banks: Who treats their customers better? | Delegates debate recertification, health plan hassles, retail clinics | Project focuses on billing complexities | Study finds modest improvement with P4P programs

PRACTICE PEARLS

PRACTICE PEARLS

Make scheduling job No. 1 | Implement disease-specific dictation reminders | Find the Medicare allowable for a particular service | Surprise your staff with extra paid time off | Systematize exam room restocking | Don’t let your numbers tell the story | Make well-informed...

THE LAST WORD

So How Are You Doing?

Richard E. Waltman

After facing a serious illness, one physician found new meaning in this common question.



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