by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 5, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Finance
How does a medical practice meet the patients’ healthcare needs while operating a highly-regulated business on less income? Start by examining one of the most expensive processes in the practice – billing. Billing requires skilled employees, sophisticated...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 16, 2011 | A Career in Practice Management, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Learn This: Technology Answers
Note: This article was first published as PM, EMR and Portals: A Primer on Healthcare-specific Software for Ambulatory Care on Technorati. Few industries are currently changing as much as the US healthcare system. While many perspectives and ideas are shaping the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 8, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records
Some of worst horror stories in healthcare operations right now have to do with the failure of Electronic Health Record, (or EHR) installations. The high rate of EHR failures is being compounded by the pressure to attest in 2011 and start recouping some money...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 31, 2011 | A Career in Practice Management, Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance
What are the hallmarks of a well-managed practice? There are many, but here are 10 basics. The practice has foundation documents appropriate to the corporate structure and written agreements describing how income and expenses are shared by physicians and/or other...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 2, 2011 | A Career in Practice Management
In addition to onsite and online undergraduate and graduate programs in healthcare administration and management, there are a number of programs that offer certification and registration (both terms meaning the same thing) for career healthcare managers. When...
