Cardiologists Like Primary-Care Docs Consider Concierge
With revenues plummeting and overhead increasing, cardiologists are considering concierge medicine too, to help them stay afloat. Source: physicianspractice.com
Can You Start a Concierge Medical Practice from Scratch?
Opening a concierge medical practice with no established patient base is challenging, but it’s not impossible. Here’s how one doctor did it. Source: physicianspractice.com
Six Tech-Tips to Tame Your Medical Practice Workload
The promise of technology is to reduce work flow and to reap smoother operations. But are you using technology in your practice to its full advantage? Source: physicianspractice.com
When a Physician Wants to Work Part-Time: Are You Ready?
It’s a complicated issue when physicians express an interest in cutting back hours. Here are six key issues to consider if this occurs at your medical practice. Source: physicianspractice.com
Health Insurance Exchanges and Your Practice
Anders Gilberg of the MGMA discusses your practice’s obligation to accept federal or state exchange plans and how to manage them properly. Source: physicianspractice.com
Is Your Medical Practice's Social Media Policy Adequate?
A social media policy is critical for all medical practices. Here are three key items that every policy should include. Source: physicianspractice.com
NFL DEA Raid Targets Doctors, Prescription Risk
Opiate prescribing can be a high risk activity for doctors if compliance measures aren’t implemented. This risk is magnified when dealing with celebrities. Source: physicianspractice.com
Physicians and Their God Complexes
The balance between medical failures and successes can be challenging to navigate. Yet, for our own benefit and sanity, we must accept our humanity. Source: physicianspractice.com
New Patient Policies Take Time to Work
In theory, prioritizing patients was great. In practice, however, it ran into three obstacles, namely patients, my staff, and referring physicians. Source: physicianspractice.com
Balancing Medical Knowledge with Patients' Beliefs
Many of our patients employ treatments that we would never recommend, and others refuse treatments that we do recommend. Here’s how we deal at our practice. Source: physicianspractice.com