How to weigh advantages and disadvantages of practice mergers. Specific traps to watch out for include ownership, governance, compensation, liability, fraud and abuse, reimbursement, taxation, benefits, antitrust and personnel.
Read More »Specialists face risks in risk contracting
Specialists bear special burdens when health systems administer risk contracts: information risk, market share risk and financial risk. How specialists need to position themselves in anticipation of these burdens.
Read More »Design for a new medical office
A strategic look at office layout: what your office should have—and what it should avoid.
Read More »Managing parallel payment systems
How to track services, billing and financial operations while integrating fee-for-service and capitated medicine in a medical practice. Understand the distinctions and respond to the variables involved.
Read More »What went wrong with TQM?
Examines obstacles to the lastest management rage and offers a wiser approach to personnel management.
Read More »Six steps for fine-tuning a practice
Fine-tune your practice through realistic performance standards, shorter meetings, bottom-up communication, multi-purpose bulletin boards, structured salaries and management ratings.
Read More »Patient education for better managed care
Concrete suggestions you can implement to foster patient cooperation in following your advice and staying healthier.
Read More »Organizational development
A case study illustrating the use of organizational development within an MSO at an academic medical center.
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