April 18, 2017
Independent medical practices have historically led the industry in their success rate with collecting patient payments, as compared to hospitals and larger healthcare networks. But [...]
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April 13, 2017
According to an article published this week on healthcarefinancenews.com, “financial pressures and uncertainty about the future of the American healthcare industry are changing the [...]
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March 15, 2017
Every other year The Physicians Foundation conducts a nationwide survey to find out what physicians have to say about the state of the medical [...]
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March 3, 2017
I recently attended a financial services conference and was asked the questions: Are not all doctors wealthy and successful? Are M.D.’s not highly attractive [...]
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March 2, 2017
Health care premiums are set to rise again in 2017, and higher deductibles are requiring patients to shoulder more responsibility. Drew Altman, President and [...]
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February 23, 2017
The primary goal of a medical practice is to serve patients. However, medical practices are also businesses and have the same aspects and concerns [...]
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February 8, 2017
In a recent study released by industry expert ACFE it was determined that small businesses are much more vulnerable to occupational fraud. With cases [...]
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February 7, 2017
With the popularity of high deductible health insurance plans spiking, medical practices are seeing increased difficulty collecting payments from their patients. Patients are confused [...]
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January 25, 2017
The CMS describes MACRA as “a new payment framework that rewards health care providers for giving better care instead of more service.” Now that [...]
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January 17, 2017
Recently reported by Managed Healthcare Executives, the healthcare industry is abuzz with predictions about the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As stakeholders [...]
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January 11, 2017
Lately the big question on everyone’s mind is, “What will happen if the ACA is repealed?” In this week’s issue of the Pulse we [...]
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January 10, 2017
The Boston Globe reports, A Harvard Medical School study suggests that changing the way doctors are paid could narrow some of the health disparities between [...]
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