MAY 2008

If you offer same-day appointments, this simple question can save your staff – and your patients – hours of time.

It can improve communications, practice efficiency and maybe even the bottom line. Just don't expect all your patients to join you online … yet.

Doctors have several options to cope with the impending July 1 payment reduction.

These nine characteristics of military life have a place in medical practices.

Before you partner with another practice, make sure you've addressed these four questions.

Thinking about how you make clinical decisions is the first step toward making better ones.

You can do it all, or do some of it better.

Why try to teach residents practice management when they don't care about it?

Even paying physicians too little may be too much for Medicare.

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Physician wins suit, bills PBM for time spent on paperwork | Former senators tackle health system reform | Characteristics of high-performing groups | Congress considers more funds for residency programs

Stress tests | Reviewing old records | Skin tag removal | Sports physicals | Diagnosis coding for anticoagulation therapy | ICD-9 coding for palliative care

Strengthen your patient relationships | Use screen savers to convey information to patients | Understanding private, fee-for-service Medicare plans

Sometimes, our patients give us gifts far greater than anything we've given them.