Healthcare providers face a staggering number of administrative tasks, from managing HR and payroll to ensuring regulatory compliance. In fact, research shows that doctors spend over 15 hours a week on paperwork—time that could be dedicated to patient care. This administrative overload doesn’t just consume valuable resources; it directly impacts patient outcomes and staff satisfaction. Read more…
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Appreciating Support Staff: Why and How?
The U.S. unemployment rate remains at historic lows, declining further during the current pandemic. According to BLS stats, the unemployment rate dropped to 11.2 percent in June 2020. Despite the downward trend in the unemployment rate, employee turnover remains a daunting challenge for employers. According to the 2018 North America Mercer Turnover Survey, an average Read more…
The Five Best Tax Strategies for Your Practice
Medical practices often generate large amounts of income, which in turn lead to hefty tax obligations. While these obligations are unavoidable for the most part, there are a few legal strategies that can help reduce them. These strategies are not reserved only for large healthcare conglomerates, the tax code is available to all practices, regardless Read more…
Physician Burnout: The Pressing Need to Transform Your EHR
Physician Burnout or EHR Burnout: A leadership role you aren’t trained for Forty-two percent of physicians say they are burned out and they cite burdensome electronic health records (EHR) as one of the main reasons for it. It doesn’t matter if they are self-employed or employed by a health system, are male or female, are Read more…
8 Ways To Improve Patient Satisfaction in 2022
Patient satisfaction scores can influence several aspects of your medical practice, from reimbursements to efficiency and profitability. Practices of all sizes and specialties should devote ample time and effort towards enhancing and maintaining patient satisfaction levels to reap the benefits of patient retention. Patients are increasingly comparing their healthcare experiences with those of others and Read more…
3 Important KPIs for Your Practice in 2022
With the healthcare industry continuing to shift towards payment models which place a greater burden of payment on patients rather than payers, keeping a firm grasp on your revenue cycle is more important now than ever for providers. All healthcare organizations have been quick to understand the value of data; however, raw data on its Read more…
Why Having Your Own Private Practice Blog is Important
The schedule of a private practice owner is incredibly hectic. You’re dealing with billing, finances, employees and struggling to even find the time to see patients. You might be wondering, then, why you should find the time to start your own blog? The last thing you want to do with such a tightly packed schedule Read more…
7 Tips for Young Physicians with Student Loan Debt
Medicine is not an easy field to get into. Medical school is tough, and the student loan debt accrued through attending can be an even greater challenge to overcome. For young physicians, at the start of their careers, the going can be tough. The pay isn’t always great for fresh graduates and the looming specter Read more…
3 Signs it’s Time to Rebrand Your Medical Practice
Branding is one of the most important aspects of any business. It is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal for influencing customer choices and decisions. By setting a high bar for quality you can make it so that consumers associate your very brand with high quality products or services. In healthcare, high Read more…
5 Tips for Starting Your Own Practice in 2022
The reasons a physician might decide to start their own practice are many. Some are drawn by the allure of greater earnings or control over their own work, whilst others are simply interested in the opportunity to serve communities that are underserved. Whatever the driving force behind the decision might have been, it takes a Read more…