Your practice is already operating at capacity. Every day’s schedule is jam-packed with appointments—and new patients, reschedules, and same-day emergencies. Once the Affordable Care Act takes effect in 2014, it’s quite likely that your practice will start seeing even more new patients. So with a potential patient load increase on the horizon, will your office [...]

In the past decade, public opinion about online banking has undergone a transformation. Initially the idea of paying one’s bills over the Internet was regarded with uneasiness, but now this feature is an absolute requirement when customers are choosing where to open a new account. In the not-so-distant future, this same scenario will likely be [...]

In an ideal world, bills would go out promptly and payments would return immediately. In reality, patient accounts sometimes go unpaid. But given that you often work and live in community with your patients, it’s important to maintain solid relationships with them. Sometimes sending accounts to collections is the only means of obtaining payment for [...]

Across the United States the use of electronic medical records is increasing at a sharp rate—and with good reason. Electronic records allow you to not only access patient care files remotely, but also share information with other physicians who are caring for your patients, thereby greatly improving the efficiency of your office and patient outcomes. [...]

Before launching your private practice, you no doubt envisioned an office full of happy, satisfied, and loyal staff members dedicated to their jobs, to you, and, most importantly, to your patients. While it’s fairly simple to manage an office staff of one or two, as your business grows and more employees come on board, personalities [...]

The use of EMR’s are the wave of the present and future. But are you readily prepared for the implications implementation will have on your practice? Let’s take a closer look at the deployment readiness of physicians across the nation by evaluating: the percentage of both EHR and EMR systems used versus basic systems, physicians who have deployed such [...]

There’s a troubling trend in the medical field today. As young doctors emerge from medical school, more and more of them are accepting full-time employment with huge healthcare systems and hospitals, rather than venturing out into the world of private practice. Moreover, physicians who’ve managed successful private practices for years are now closing up shop [...]

Is your private practice struggling to operate in the black? Perhaps you feel caught between a growing client caseload and continually delayed insurance reimbursements—regardless of the mountain of compliance paperwork your office generates every day. These are tough financial times for private practices, and the ability to turn a profit becomes more challenging every year. [...]

The most valuable component of your private practice is not your advanced skill set, your friendly staff, or even your coveted location. If your practice is going to succeed, then you must recognize that your most valuable asset is your existing client base. It’s a widely held belief that it costs five to ten times [...]

Weighing the Pros and Cons of Remodeling Versus Relocating In our previous blog post, we outlined some steps to help you grow your caseload and fill your office calendar with appointments. But what happens when your client base has expanded so much that your office space is now bursting at the seams? Between the files, [...]