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Making an investment in real estate shouldn’t disrupt your carefully-built financial strategy.

Practices of all shapes and sizes can use the Internet to conduct economical, reliable surveys that give your patients a voice, and provide valuable information on improving service and care.

Accurate and meaningful information will strengthen the doctor-patient relationship while misleading or inaccurate information may complicate that relationship considerably. Physicians need to act quickly to influence what standards, data and measures are used and push accrediting agencies to police CDST effectively.

In light of Wellspan, it may be increasingly difficult for hospitals, or other employers of specialty physicians, to enforce restrictive covenants against specialists who are in short supply in their geographic area.

The OIG and CMS are looking to strike the right balance between encouraging the dissemination of these technologies and minimizing the risk of abusive arrangements. The many conditions in their proposals suggest that they put greater weight in the latter objective, however.

While P.A.P.A. is still fighting for tort reform at the state level, the best hope for physicians is presently in the United States Congress.

Four recent developments in the public and private malpractice insurance sectors spell good news for physicians and have some industry officials declaring that Pa. is beginning to turn a corner on its malpractice crisis.

Save money on Group Health Insurance, Worker’s Compensation Insurance, and outsource your office’s Human Resources (OSHA) compliance issues/liability.

You may not have the time, resources or budget to implement an EMR system now, but that shouldn’t stop you from being able to move toward being paperless and electronic.

The MCARE Act’s self-reporting requirement increases the chances that the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs will open an investigation file that could potentially lead to a disciplinary action against a professional’s license to practice.