See the December 29 post and enter your practice’s goals for 2009. Include a plan by which your will achieve the goals. The best plan wins a $15 gift card from Amazon.
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Patients have a pet peeve: they hate waiting for the doctor. I hate waiting for the doctor, and hate it when patients wait for me! It’s very funny, but in my personal life I tend to run late, but at work, I’m usually on time. Reflecting on what helps me be on time, I came [...]
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See the December 29 post and enter your practice’s goals for 2009. Include a plan by which your will achieve the goals. The best plan wins a $15 gift card from Amazon.
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As a way to encourage goal setting and planning for medical practices, I am hosting a contest. I will email a $15 Amazon gift card to the person who sends in the best plan for improving their medical practice in 2009.
Here are the rules:
Under the comments section for this post, list the goal your practice will [...]
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I’ve been storing up some links and today seemed to be a good time to have at ‘em! They range from the scary (Health Policy and Market) to the fun (the Efficient MD’s slide show.)
Read The Country Doc Report for another take on the group visit. Country Doc relates how his practice does a group diabetic [...]
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I am fascinated by how we physicians communicate (or not) with each other and with our patients. As a medical student and resident NO ONE ever thought about how physicians communicated with patients. We were always so focused on nailing the disease process and treatment that the patient was nearly ignored. I don’t think I [...]
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All right, Dr. Practice Owner, here are more tips to keep you practice’s head above water in these turbulent times:
Share staff. If you have an excess of staff, could they be shared with another office rather than laid off? You get to retain a valued staff member, the staff member keeps their job, and everyone wins.
Enlist [...]
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So now that we are in the spend, spend, spend season, I thought I would round up some more ways to SAVE money in medical practices. The following tips are from the mundane to the grandiose.
Get your printer cartridges refilled, rather than buying new ones. And, hey it’s “green”!
Get free forms. Visit www.entreprenuer.com/formnet. They have forms [...]
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As the ExtraMD, PookieMD has seen lots of practices. I have also been asked to evaluate failing practices to see where they got off track. There are some common themes amongst failing practices. For once, I will NOT carry on about reimbursement, but rather focus on where the physician owners of these failing practices went wrong. [...]
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Now that I have vented/ranted/opined on the demise of primary care, let’s move to some survival tips. Following are PookieMD’s two fundamental. most important, and most loathsome rules of survival in primary care medicine.
The money is in the numbers.
Time is money.
Yes, you have to see patients to make money, and given today’s reimbursement you have to [...]
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