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Podcast: 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.
Evolution Healthcare Consulting
www.evohcc.com
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How to Stay on Top of Practice Finances with Judy Capko
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Judy Capko, President of Capko & Co., based in Thousand Oaks, California and the author of the best-seller, Secrets of the Best-Run Practices is interviewed by SoundPractice.net. In this 20 minute podcast, Judy reviews the concept of monthly strategy meetings in a medical practice, how to get doctors and others in the practice to buy-in to such meetings, how to best structure meetings to share performance data, and the most important issues and benchmark data to cover on a regular basis. She also discusses how to keep focus and momentum up for such strategy sessions.
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Recognizing and Dealing With Impaired Clinicians Part 1 Recognition and Reporting
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Medical licensing boards and clinical societies encourage (and most boards require) physicians to report colleagues reasonably suspected of not practicing safely and competently. Failure to report unsafe, incompetent, or illegally acting clinicians can seriously damage patients, the profession, and the doctor himself/herself. Good-faith reporting is generally protected from lawsuit.
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Podcast: Real Time Claim Adjudication
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Implementing Real Time Claim Adjudication may be a smart move for many medical practices. In this 20-minute podcast, Doral Davis-Jacobsen, Manager, Physician Services Consulting Unit Dixon Hughes, PLLC, defines the term, how the process of real time adjudication effects accounts receivable workflow, the challenges in implementing the program, keys to success in incorporating the process into the practice workflow, and the impressive impact on the financial performance of the practice.
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Starting a Successful Medical Practice
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In this 20-minute podcast, Marc Halley, MBA, of The Halley Consulting Group, LLC and Editor of the new book, The Medical Practice Start-Up Guide, (available August 18, 2008) discusses the competitive forces that new doctors face in the marketplace, the top five things that new physicians can do to protect their business, options for financing a practice start-up, how new doctors can find patients for their practice and how doctors can look for the best staff members and the concept of the "highest and best use of staff members." The Medical Practice Start-Up Guide (ISBN 978-0-9814728-2-6) can be ordered at http://www.mpmnetwork.com or by calling 800-933-3711.
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