Managing Your Practice
Managing Your Practice
Should You Offer Medical Credit Cards?
Traditionally, these cards were used to help cover procedures insurance didn't cover -- such as cosmetic procedures -- but over the years, they...
Managing Your Practice
Will the Federal Non-Compete Ban Take Effect?
The FTC reasoned that non-compete clauses constitute restraint of trade, and eliminating them could potentially increase worker earnings as well...
Managing Your Practice
Burnout
In last month’s column, I discussed employees who are “clock watchers” and how to address this issue in your practice if it exists. Here’s another...
Managing Your Practice
Clock Watchers
Generally, clock watchers — sometimes referred to in modern parlance as “quiet quitters” — radiate a palpable sense of “I don’t want to be here...
Managing Your Practice
Beware the Letter of Intent
You might ask, if the terms in an LOI are not binding, why bother with one at all?
Managing Your Practice
Why Don’t Physicians Call In Sick?
We can work to overcome this institutional taboo against staying home when we do get sick. Work out a system of mutual coverage for such...
Law & Medicine
Doctors in 2 More States May Qualify for Student Loan Forgiveness
Loan forgiveness has several qualifications.
Managing Your Practice
Electronic Health Records — Recent Survey Results
The lack of information sharing among different EHR systems has been the technology’s greatest unmet promise, according to the survey.
Managing Your Practice
How to develop a patient referral program
Nothing provides as much benefit – relative to its comparatively low cost – as the original marketing tool, word-of-mouth patient referrals.
Managing Your Practice
Artificial intelligence in the office: Part 2
A multitude of generative AI products with potential medical applications are now available, with new ones appearing almost weekly.
Managing Your Practice
Artificial intelligence in your office
Some AI-based tools are available to use in your office right now, with no “existential” threat to anybody.