Part B News | Physician Practice Perspectives

12/01/2004

Between shopping for gifts and planning for relatives to arrive, the holidays provide unique challenges-and that's before you even think about stressors at work. In a doctor's office, where the stress comes from all sides-doctors, workload, and patients-it's a wonder that staffers make it through the holiday season.

The reviews aren't in

12/01/2004

Physician practice office managers have a strange way of knowing whether they're doing a good job, says New York-based medical practice consultant Susan Genrich.

Don't let casting, strapping code confusion break you

12/01/2004

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but it's figuring out the correct codes for casting and strapping those broken bones that can really pain office staff.

To 'e' or not to 'e': That is the question

12/01/2004

Part two of a two-part series Healthcare providers have greeted e-prescribing, like so many technological advances before it, with a mix of excitement and reluctance, anticipation and avoidance. That's why when a health system such the Indianapolis-based St. Francis Medical Group takes those first tentative steps toward this transition, it's a gradual, challenging process.

Learn to tackle the 21st century work force

12/01/2004

In more practices now I see multiple generations of both staff and providers at work. As a former practice administrator, I consider it critical to the success of both the employee and the practice to quickly assimilate new employees. However, I can't help but question the ease of this transition now given the social diversities in the generations of employees.

Do you have enough gold for those (extended) golden years?

12/01/2004

Being retired longer than you worked sounds, at first, like a pie-in-the-sky fantasy-conjuring up images of young, healthy people in the primes of their lives lazing on a beach in Tahiti or skiing in the Swiss Alps. In actuality, though, the concept has recently become a reality-but not necessarily one that everybody will completely welcome, according to financial planner Joe Stone,1 CLU, ChFC.

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