The services of PAs are reimbursable under Medicare rules, but physicians must be mindful of their limitations and must be cognizant of the requirements for physician supervision of PAs imposed by state licensing laws.

With the skyrocketing costs of college and limited financial aid to go around, the government is enhancing certain college savings plans that have only been around for a couple of years. One of the most exciting opportunities that exist for college savings is the newly expanding Section 529 Savings Plan.

For physicians, there are three areas to consider: personal qualities, professional characteristics and the reality of the unexpected.

After you have laid all the groundwork by placing your practice ads or hiring a recruiter, hopefully the resumes will begin to roll in.

These new rules clarify how and when ABNs must be used, the form an effective ABN must take, and what physicians can do when beneficiaries are unable or unwilling to sign an ABN.

If a departing physician joins a competitor or sets up a new practice in the vicinity, suspicions abound that he or she will solicit practice patients and referral sources, steal patient lists, or disparage the practice.

In the event of disability, benefits are taxable unless the disability and the plan itself satisfy a two-part exclusion test contained in Section 105(c) of the Internal Revenue Code.

If carefully examined, complementary medicine could be the answer to your practice's shrinking revenues. Consider data on its revenues and utilization since 1990, as well as trends in the government, scientific and educational environments.

Many physicians are surprised when they discover that they may make less money after factoring in the buy-in and that they have no additional security. Of course, that should not be the case.

With the growth in the types and numbers of ambulatory care procedures that can be performed without an inpatient admission, so too have arisen a number of questions about the regulatory oversight imposed when such procedures--particularly those that might be classified as surgical procedures--are performed