Starting a Successful Medical Practice Podcast Editor In this 20-minute podcast, Marc Halley, MBA, of The Halley Consulting Group, LLC and Editor of the new book, The Medical Practice Start-Up Guide, (available August 18, 2008) discusses the competitive forces that new doctors face in the marketplace, the top five things that new physicians can do to protect their business, options for financing a practice start-up, how new doctors can find patients for their practice and how doctors can look for the best staff members and the concept of the "highest and best use of staff members." The Medical Practice Start-Up Guide (ISBN 978-0-9814728-2-6) can be ordered at http://www.mpmnetwork.com or by calling 800-933-3711.
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Medical Practice Finance,
Medical Practice Management,
Physician Income,
Continue Reading | Mon, 18 Aug 2008 | Comments (0) | Permanent Link
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Podcast: Interview with Linda A.Brown, CMA, (AAMA) President of the American Association of Medical Assistants Podcast Editor In this 20-minute podcast interview, Linda A.Brown, CMA, (AAMA) President of the American Association of Medical Assistants discusses the varied and important roles a medical assistant can have in a medical practice -- both from a clinical and an administrative perspective. Also, In its March 2008 issue, the Journal of Medical Practice Management published "Roles for CMAs (AAMA) Enhance Quality and Effectiveness of Care." The article explains how employing the CMA (AAMA) is "proving to be a cost-effective way of providing high-quality care." The article also describes a new frontier for the profession, detailing how researchers are exploring new roles for the CMA (AAMA) that will enhance efficiency and patient compliance. Those interested in a copy of the article can contact Greenbranch Publishing at info@greenbranch.com. American Association of Medical Assistants www.aama-ntl.org
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Continue Reading | Mon, 07 Jul 2008 | Comments (0) | Permanent Link
Podcast: Interview with Bruce Lefco, CEO of Health Payment Systems Podcast Editor In this second installment of a 3-part series, Bruce Lefco, CEO of Health Payment Systems, discusses their innovative financial transactions promising payment to healthcare providers in twenty days, on both the insurance and self-pay portions on a non-recourse basis. In this 20-minute podcast, Mr. Lefco explains HPS's creative ways to communicate charges to patients and he also describes the SuperEOB concept. http://www.hps.md
Podcast: The Ultimate Partnership - Getting Patients on Your Side Podcast Editor Judy Capko, Author of the Best-Seller Secrets of the Best-Run Practices and her newest book "Take Back Time: Bringing Time Managmenet to Medicine", discusses in this 20-minute podcast how to get patients on your side. She explains why patients are becoming even more demanding, what patients really want from their doctors, how practices can take advantage of technology to partner with patients, how to effectively use a practice website and how to make a medical practice more friendly...and what it takes to create a true partnership with patients.
Podcast: Politics and Healthcare 2008 Podcast Editor In this 20-minute podcast, Owen Dahl, MBA, FACHE, CHBC, author of Think Business! Medical Practice Qualtity, Efficiency, Profits discusses the current issues facing our representatives in Washington including -- his best guess on the 10.5% Medicare issue, the difference between national health insurance and single payer insurance, who are the key players to watch in Washington, the changes in DC that will have an impact on private practices, and how physicians and adminstrators can keep in touch with their representatives and how they can get involved on a local level.
Podcast: Lean Healthcare in the Medical Practice Podcast Editor Donna Weinstock of Office Management Solution discusses, in this 20-minute interview, the popularity of lean healthcare, provides detail on the "7 wastes" and describes the criteria for determining if a process or system in a medical practice needs to be streamlined. What can medical practices learn from TPS - Toyota Production Systems? Donna Weinstock will tell you...and she will also describe steps on how a medical practice can become a "Lean" provider.
Podcast: Those Maddening Phones - Are They Wasting Your Time? Podcast Editor Judy Capko, Author of the Best-Seller Secrets of the Best-Run Practices and her newest book (publishing March 1, 2008) Take Back Time: Bringing Time Management to Medicine, discusses in this 20-minute podcast why medical practices have such trouble with phone demand and she provides concrete tips and solutions to help the problem. Judy covers how to audit your inbound calls, getting to the root of the "system" vs. the "staffing" problem, how to train staff for good telephone skills, and why a common complaint from patients is the insensitivity of staff members on the phone. Judy's new book can be found here - http://shopmpm.com/Take_Back_Time_Management_Medicine.asp
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Medical Practice Management,
Physician Income,
Continue Reading | Wed, 05 Mar 2008 | Comments (0) | Permanent Link
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Podcast: The Action Formula: The Shortest Distance Between What You Have and What You Want Podcast Editor In this 20-minute podcast interview, Wendy Lipton-Dibner, author and speaker, describes the evolution of The Action Formula: The Shortest Distance Between What You Have and What You Want and how the strategy (and her book) is being implemented in medical and dental practices. Is it a book for business or a self-help book? It's both! And Wendy explains how this can be.
As one of the reviewers of the book wrote, "Move over, Tom Peters and Ken Blanchard," and Wendy discusses what the reviewer meant. Lastly, Wendy describes WHAT the Action Formula is and why it has such wide appeal to both healthcare and corporate communities.
Podcast: Real Time Claim Adjudication Podcast Editor Implementing Real Time Claim Adjudication may be a smart move for many medical practices. In this 20-minute podcast, Doral Davis-Jacobsen, Manager, Physician Services Consulting Unit Dixon Hughes, PLLC, defines the term, how the process of real time adjudication effects accounts receivable workflow, the challenges in implementing the program, keys to success in incorporating the process into the practice workflow, and the impressive impact on the financial performance of the practice.
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Medical Reimbursement,
Medical Practice Finance,
Medical Practice Management,
Continue Reading | Mon, 10 Dec 2007 | Comments (0) | Permanent Link
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Podcast: Grow Your Practice from the Inside Out Podcast Editor Why is it that some practices have a flair for rapid growth? It is a combination of good financial planning and terrific customer service that drives referrals. In this 20-minute podcast, Judy Capko, author of the runaway best seller, Secrets of the Best-Run Practices discusses elements of how patients rate their doctors, the most common complaints patients have about their physicians, the importance of office aesthetics, the use of technology for patients to better "connect" with their doctors, and the use of mystery patients or mystery shoppers in the medical practice.
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Medical Practice Management,
Physician Income,
Continue Reading | Mon, 05 Nov 2007 | Comments (0) | Permanent Link
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Podcast: Hot Issues for Hospitals – and What that Means for Physicians Podcast Editor Jennifer Bever, FACHE, the Director of Education for Sg2 discusses hot issues for hospitals and the impact of these issues on physician and physician practices. In this 20-minute podcast, Ms. Bever covers Medicare payment reductions and surgical services, pay-for-performance, projected physician workforce shortages, what makes physician-hospital partnerships successful, and very specific strategies on how physicians can work more effectively with hospitals. Jennifer Bever also discusses when and how physicians should "do it themselves."
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Health Care,
Medical Practice Management,
Physician Income,
Continue Reading | Tue, 09 Oct 2007 | Comments (0) | Permanent Link
