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...

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 your office

Some AI-based tools are available to use in your office right now, with no “existential” threat to anybody.

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