by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 23, 2018 | A Career in Practice Management, General, Leadership, Starting a New Practice
A question I recently answered on Quora was: How would you go about asking a business professional that you admire, for advice on starting up a business? My answer could just as easily apply to asking someone to mentor you. Here’s what I said: Asking someone for...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 9, 2016 | Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Starting a New Practice
We’ve heard from many small independent practices of their desire to evaluate/change their practice model due to: Ongoing Medicare quality program and commercial insurance fee reductions. Increasing administrative expense related to pre-authorizations, denials,...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 5, 2016 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Headlines, Starting a New Practice
Durham, North Carolina and Falmouth, Maine: Today, Manage My Practice, LLC, a full-service consulting firm specializing in services to solo and small medical practices and The Billing Department, Inc., a company that provides revenue cycle management services to...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 5, 2016 | Starting a New Practice
In 2012, we wrote “Yes, You Can and Should Start a New Practice in 2013” and more than 13,000 people have viewed it since then. Despite what you may read on the internet, private medical practice is not dead, and physicians are starting new medical...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 2, 2015 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Starting a New Practice
I recently helped a physician start a new practice and we began applying for enrollment with the Big Five insurance companies. The physician was stunned to find: Insurance companies regularly “lost” her applications and we had to submit the same...