May/June 2017

In today’s healthcare environment, with healthcare reform pressures, stiff competition, and increased regulatory scrutiny, achieving that all-important financial success demands effective financial performance management.

This seven-step hiring process is an organized and professional way to select, interview, and successfully hire qualified candidates.

This article focuses on 10 behaviors that must be avoided whenever possible.

This article examines the increasing use of locum tenens and how medical practices can bill Medicare and other payers for the services locum tenens physicians provide.

We propose a simple five-step process to provide structure to the innovation process that will reduce the number of projects in the pipeline, align the ongoing efforts with the strategy, and increase the number of next-generation and breakthrough pro...

This article covers what it takes to create and maintain a fair and honest pay structure.

This article provides guidance on recognizing micromanagement and addressing problems related to micromanagement.

The success of your practice/HCO will depend on how well you meet non-FFS requirements and also how well you compete with the convenience and cost of a clinic associated with your local pharmacy. Your plan to address these challenges relies on using ...

Volunteers now are using their professional and life experience skills to better assist healthcare systems with their strategies and initiatives. Some of the newer volunteer roles include Patient/Family Advisory Council members. The partnership betwe...

This article reviews the nature of one of the fully qualifying Advanced APMs, the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Model, and its advanced medical home model based on previous experience with the prior Comprehensive Primary Care program. This model re...

This article describes how a healthcare team provides value by meeting the needs of a rare disease patient and underscores the importance of a chronic multiorgan rare disease home.

This article will address how to identify the necessity to renovate current space or build a new office.

The primary aim of this study was to determine whether pens result in improved adherence for long-acting basal insulin administration as compared with vials in elderly Medicare patients.

This article outlines the cost of poor and ineffective communication in medical practices today and provides insights into the seven most damaging interpersonal communication habits that undermine trust among coworkers, between employees and manageme...

This article reviews the choices among the methods of reporting (individual or group), the duration of the 2017 performance period (90 days up to one year), the reporting mechanism used to submit data to CMS, and the specific measures selected to ach...