All recruiting needs are not created equal; therefore, your approach will vary as well. In his new book, Hugo Finarelli, Jr., PhD, shares proven strategies for recruiting in the following specific situations and more.

There are potential benefits when an established physician starts an urgent care center—more variety than a traditional clinical practice, a lifestyle change, and an increased patient base.

Once again, research confirms what we have been hearing anecdotally: Consumers are not accessing care at the levels they were a few years ago.

The housing market continues to make physician recruitment more difficult.

At this point, you know about the Obama administration’s
goals for widespread electronic health record (EHR) adoption, about the $19 billion being invested in healthcare information technology, and about the carrots being offered to entice hospitals and physicians to play along.

This week's question is answered by John Burns CPC, senior consultant for DecisionHealth Professional Services.

Q: Can I bill a device check (pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator) on the same day as an office visit?

If you get hit with erroneous overpayment demands when your local recovery audit contractor (RAC) opens for business later this summer, CMS has some advice for you: appeal.

This chart shows the patients-per-provider ratio in the Medicare program, comparing the number of enrollees per provider, by specialty, in 2007 and 2008.

Regardless of whether the health reform bill results in a public insurance option, the dated and much-maligned Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula that currently dictates your Medicare payments is likely to be replaced, so long as some sort of reform package passes, experts say.

You'll need to identify as many patients eligible for a covered osteoporosis screening as you can - if you want to get the most out of your dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) machine. Reimbursement rates for DEXA have fallen sharply in recent years, with a 40% cut in 2007 (PBN 5/28/07) and the future is set to get worse.