You and Your Hospital - The Ins and Outs of Hospital Contracting - August 2010 (HTML | PDF)
California and a minority of other states bar hospitals from directly employing physicians unless the employment relationship fits into one of a few legal exceptions. 

Pay-for-Performance Is Heading Your Way - May 2007 (HTML | PDF)
There's a lot of hype about pay-for-performance (P4P), an attempt to devise a means to encourage health care providers to focus on improving outcomes. More and more health plans are paying physicians based on reporting, meeting or exceeding measures related to quality care...

Silent PPOs: Do You Have Them In Your Practice? - September 2006 (HTML | PDF)
Have you ever looked a payment from an insurance company and realized your fees were being discounted when you never agreed to the rates in the first place?  If so, you are not alone...

The Countdown to NPI Has Begun - July 2006 (HTML | PDF)
The National Provider Identifier (NPI) compliance deadline is less than a year away.  No practice should risk cash flow disruption by not implementing this latest HIPAA standard...

When Things Go South - October 2005 (HTML | PDF)
Conflicts with unhappy patients are inevitable in the work of running a busy family medicine practice. Even the most well-intentioned interactions can sometimes "go south," resulting in upset patients and frazzled staff...

Tips and Techniques for Managing More Patients - March 2005 (HTML | PDF)
In family medicine, the more patients you see per day, the larger the community of patients you can serve-and the greater your earnings. Of course, there are variables like complexity and intensity of services per patient, use of extenders, and proper coding...