Medical Economics offers tools, tips and resources to help physicians run a successful medical practice. Covering everything from ancillary services, billing and compensation to staffing and starting a new practice, you will find the practice management section invaluable in your day-to-day business operations.

	Ancillary services—Dispensing drugs; ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and physical therapy
	Billing/collections—Cutting accounts receivable; copays; improving collections; collection agencies; clean claims; practice management and charge tickets
	Business forms—Forms to improve collections; field patient phone calls; sample letters for patient referrals; no-show patients and prescription renewal requests
	Business operations—Cutting costs; productivity; practice management; medical office design; business plans and office equipment for small medical practices
	Coding—CPT, ICD-9; ICD-10; E/M services; diagnosis codes and modifiers
	Compensation—Physician salaries; increasing earnings; physician income surveys; dividing income; reimbursements and fees
	Group practice—Non-compete clauses; restrictive covenants; practice mergers; joining a practice; practice management; call coverage and dividing income
	Health information technology—E-prescribing; electronic health records; personal data assistants and health information technology
	HIPAA—Privacy; record requests; retaining records; sending records; patient authorization forms; business associate agreements and computer security
	Managed care—HMO contracts; PPO contracts; pay for performance; downcoding; disease registries; capitation and fee for service
	Medicare/Medicaid—National provider identifier number (NPI); submitting claims; pay for performance; anti-kickback rules and opting out
	Patient handouts—Practice managaement forms for patient education; sample letters and explaining your fees
	Patient relations—Physicians' communication tips; patient satisfaction; compliance and handling difficult patients
	Practice pointers—Cross-training staff; handling no-shows;marketing; practice management; cutting accounts receivable and improving collections
	Productivity—Measuring productivity; improving your practice's bottom line; patient visits and hours worked
	Records— Physicians' medical record documentation; charting errors; electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs)
	Re-engineering your practice—Same-day scheduling; office design and patient visits
	Solo practice—Practice management information for doctors looking for solo practice tips and advice
	Staffing—Medical practice staff salaries; hiring; firing; practice management; medical assistants; office managers; locum tenens and midlevel providers
	Starting a practice—Physicians' guide to getting a medical practice up and running; loans; leases; credentialing; insurance coverage and benefits