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Watch five $$ leaks to take control of the bottom line

03/01/2006

Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series. To increase revenue at your practice, you don’t necessarily need to generate more business; you might just need to plug a few revenue leaks. Last month, in part one of this series, healthcare consultant Jennifer Bever, MS, CHE, of Chicago-based KarenZupko & Associates, Inc., explained five revenue leaks that your practice can only control indirectly. This month, Bever discusses five revenue areas that you can directly control and ways to correct them.

Venture beyond legal and financial in your estate plan

03/01/2006

You draft your will, purchase an extensive life insurance policy, and set up a trust. You work diligently with an attorney to get the legal matters of your estate plan in order. Everything seems in place, but you still feel like something is missing. "It’s often not very satisfying to have only the typical estate plan," says estate-planning attorney Dagmar Pollex.1 Most estate plans are one-dimensional and focus only on legal matters, ignoring other important facets of life such as family and beliefs, she says. But that doesn’t have to be the case. Increasingly, people are filling the emotional void left in traditional estate plans with "family love letters" and ethical wills.

AMA pact promises P4P by next year

02/27/2006

Practices, doctors question AMA pay-for-performance deal

02/27/2006

Secret hold on claims may be source of slowed pay flow

02/27/2006

Slowed spending growth predicted, but pay fixes would change that

02/27/2006

Some conditions may qualify patients for more therapy

02/27/2006

Medicare expands bariatic coverage, with parameters

02/27/2006

Your patients may qualify for a therapy cap exception

02/27/2006

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