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A physician’s use of telemedicine poses a variety of new risks and questions of liability which do not occur in traditional medicine.

Many insurance companies have begun to deny claims for appropriate ancillary services based on the holding of the Commonwealth Court in the Three Rivers case.

Market timing reduces risk and, when bear markets abound, it beats the heck out of the market.

The best performance of physician organizations will not be found in the new idea. It will be found through leadership within your organization that elects to use the information you have assembled.

There are several important steps to making an expense budget work for your practice. Consider how to benchmark your expenses.

Simple income division has shown itself to be problematic. Increasingly, practices are moving towards developing a compensation plan that accounts for the various contributions each physician makes to the group.

Working against the physician group in the employment law area is the perception that the medical practice is a "small" employer and so is exempt from many of the federal and state laws governing employees.

Many physicians throughout the country are just being informed that their computer systems are not Year 2000 compliant and are being asked to spend thousands of dollars to become compliant. Some of these practices have been successful in negotiating a reduced price for their Year 2000 upgrade.

They may not be as funny as David Letterman’s Top 10, but they’ll save you a lot more.

With the equity MSO, physicians still decide how patients are managed, with no corporation lurking around the corner to tell them how to practice medicine.