The best medical consulting agencies have certain characteristics! How you select a qualified and reliable consulting firm will determine the outcome and success of the consulting engagement to a large…
Category: Executive Management
Healthcare Recruitment Strategies
Employees represent the foundation of every healthcare operation, and thus, effective healthcare recruitment strategies are a fundamental component of every successful operation. As a service-oriented industry, healthcare depends on the…
Mayo Clinic handled this crisis of scrutiny through social media!
The Mayo Clinic was recently a target of inaccurate and incomplete reporting by CNN, and while debates of libel, freedom of speech, privacy, and contradictory information will most certainly continue,…
Crisis Communication and Social Media in Healthcare
Allen Gingsburg once said that whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. Healthcare related crisis communication and social media are intensely connected! Take a deep breath to comprehend…
Acquisition of Physician Practices – Legal Observation
Acquisition of physician practices are on the rise! Hospitals acquired 31,000 physician practices across every region of the country between 2012-2015 making the number of employed physicians increase from 95,000…
Medical Office Floor Plans – 11 essential questions
After having been part of starting a medical practice a number of times, I’ve learned a thing or two about what goes into it. Here I’ll cover critical items in…
Does your Hospital have a Pokemon Policy?
Many hospitals are dealing with the latest mobile device game craze, Pokemon Go, but not everyone is asking staff and visitors to refrain from playing on the hospital campus. Pokemon No…
New Overtime Rule – Impact on Costs for Healthcare Providers
The new overtime rule is effective December 1, 2016. The Department of Labor is instituting new overtime rules that are likely to have a substantial effect on health care providers…
Starting a Medical Practice – an Idea that never went away!
Download our list of Practice Start-up Issues Starting a medical practice may seem like an idea that has come and gone, but in reality, it never went away! Many new…
Is it Time for your Medical Practice to Opt out of Medicare?
“I opposed the budget deal in 1997 because it brought in a $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.” ~ David Obey, U.S….
Efficient Operations in Your Medical Practice … Be Serious About It!
With EHR technology being implemented, Health Reform just around the corner, and Meaningful Use criteria mandated, what else can there be? How about many more coding and billing auditing agencies…
Expect Delay in Medicare Cash Flow Affecting Physician Compensation
The good news. HR 3962 delays the 21% cut in the physician compensation based on the Medicare Physician Fee schedule until November 30, 2010, replacing it with a 2.2% increase to…
Is your Medical Billing Consultant Recommending Useful Reports?
Many physicians are thirsty for meaningful reports on the status of medical billing and accounts receivable, but their staff or even their medical billing consultant does not know what types…
Does your Medical Group Billing Consultant Recommend Outsourcing?
Many times we hear physicians asking if they should outsource their medical billing. They hear someone in the doctor’s lounge talk about the 4% of collections an outside billing company…
Does your Healthcare Billing Consultant Implement, or Just Talk?
As you think about your medical billing department, keep in mind a few core principles to manage and organize for the outcome to be “best practices“. Better management of your medical…
Does Your Healthcare Billing Consultant Recommend these Best Practices?
Here are ten simple things to check on that will help you compare your physician billing procedures to “benchmarks: Does your staff track your charge tickets to make sure they…
Not All Healthcare Billing Consultants are Created Equal!
As you consider your billing department, do you think it’s operating at peak efficiency? Is it bringing in as much cash as you think it should? There are several signs…