I’m sure that you’ve heard the expression:  build it and they will come.  You started your private practice because you want to see patients. But how do you build your patient volume?

In this episode, you'll learn 6 steps to accelerate your ramp-up. 

• Define your message
  • Differentiate yourself from the competition
• ...

The Notice of Privacy Practices is a  form that many patients toss in the garbage but that actually gets you into a lot of trouble and costs an enormous amount of money.  HIPAA guarantees a variety of patient rights--including a patient’s right to know how you’re going to use their Protected Health Information...

If you practice medicine, sooner or later you’ll get to the point that you want to fire a patient. Whatever the reason that you may have for terminating the physician-patient relationship, there needs to be a clear and consistent policy and procedure for doing so or you're exposing yourself to hassles and unnecessary potential...

New ventures require money. The question is always where does that money come from. It may come from your savings, a loan or other investors. Regardless of whether you are starting your own practice, buying into a practice or related business (ASC, Imaging Center, etc)--you will need to make a capital investment.

In this episode, Dr....

Today, I’m going to talk to you about practice managers and how they fit into your team.

Let’s start by talking about the difference between an office manager and a practice manager. If you hire someone to help manage your practice—regardless of how small it is—that employee is a practice manager. 

What are...

In this episode, I have the great pleasure of chatting with Dr. Cheng Ruan, the founder of Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Ruan started out in an internal medicine practice before starting his extremely successful and lucrative lifestyle medicine practice. 

Here are some of the key points we touched on:

• The importance...

The first impression that people have of you is their experience when they walk in your front door.  The person at the front desk is the first person from your office that someone is going to meet. 

You want to hire looking through the prism of who you and your practice are and the demographics of your patient population.

By...

If you are like me, you never carry cash. I pay for EVERYTHING with my credit card. And, as a consumer, I get annoyed if a place doesn't take credit cards. I never actually think about the vendor side of things. I figure they bundle the cost of taking credit cards into whatever they're charging me.

The problem for physicians who are...

If you are an out-of-network provider for an insurance company you may perceive that you can get better reimbursement--in large part because, in some states, you can balance bill the patient. 

But all of that's about to change. When the No Surprises Act, a federal law, goes into effect on Jan 1, 2022, you'll no longer be allowed...

Do you know what your practice’s clean-claims submission rate is? Or maybe I should ask you if you even know what a clean claim is? Submitting clean claims is key to maximizing your ability to collect the money that is due to you. In this episode, I’ll tell you what a clean claim is, what clean claim rate you should try to...