Personal liability risks that physicians in nonprofit health care organizations have to avoid or face penalties for "excess benefit transactions" under the recently passed Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights II.
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 »Tort reform may not reduce liability
A critical look at medical liability reform "progress" from a litigator’s perspective reveals a potential raw deal.
Read More »PA’s certificate of need sunset
A handy summary of what has happened, what is affected and how other state agencies have said they will respond.
Read More »Web-based protocol information management
Coordinating cancer treatment protocols across a hospital network is a demanding task. See how it can be made more manageable using the World Wide Web.
Read More »Hazards ahead for AMCs
Gordon K. MacLeod, M.D., itemizes warning signs for medical education’s future. The signs represent a trend to be reckoned with.
Read More »Progress report on PND web site
Discussion forum blossoms, search capacity is operational, and other new features of this site.
Read More »Pension changes in new tax law
Start-up practices and small employers may wish to consider the new SIMPLE retirement plan. Be aware of changes to 401(k) calculations. Tax-exempt organizations are now permitted to establish 401(k) plans. Other impacts of the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996.
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 »Valuation problems of intangible assets
Confronting practice valuations are legal and financial obstacles in two contexts: the sale of a practice by a hospital-based physician and the sale of a practice to a hospital. Learn from the mistakes of others.
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