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Innovative Ways to Boost Morale In Your Practice by Laura Sachs Hills
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Employees with high morale are likely to work harder, contribute more to your practice, and stay with you. With a little ingenuity, almost anyone can come up with affordable, effective morale boosters that can add fun and excitement to your practice. This podcast suggests tried-and-true morale boosting techniques to be used with your staff, such as meeting enhancements, contests, and outings.
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Taking the Leap - Becoming a Health Care Consultant
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Starting a health care consulting business involves more than expertise in your field: it takes business savvy, lots of financial smarts, excellent people and communication skills and marketing know-how. Consulting in heath care is one of the hottest trends in the market today, as more and more people appreciate the independence and flexibility it brings and the range of potential income that the business can generate. In this podcast Betsy Nicoletti, author of Physician Auditing Workbook and owner of Medical Practice Consulting, shares the strategies that worked for her, as well as mistakes made along the way.
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Managed Care Contracting, Top Considerations
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Susan Childs, FACMPE, of Evolution Healthcare Consulting, in this 20-minute podcast, discusses the most important aspects to consider when negotiating a managed care contract, how to convey the value and culture of your practice to insurance companies, the threat to terminate a contract (should it ever be done?), the most important contract language to address and strategies to use to keep up with the timeline of your contracts.
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Strategic Planning for the Medical Practice with Judy Capko
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Medical practice management consultant Judy Capko discusses how to organize and run a strategic planning session for the medical practice. Topics include: buy-in from physicians, how to get involvement from less-than-enthusiastic participants, selecting the proper facilitator, what role the facilitator plays, where strategic planning sessions should be held, social activities, the "rules of engagement", pre-planning, retreat outcomes based on data driven decisions, outlining strategies agreed to during the session, follow-up, assigning responsibility and keeping the plan on course, the importance of sharing the plan with office staff, and budgeting for a planning session.
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