Medical Practice Management Network on GigaDial Public: Recent Episodes
None
MPMNetwork focuses on delivering "how-to" advice for delivering high quality care, increasing patients' satisfaction and improving medical practices’ profitability. With an emphasis on working smarter and more efficiently, each issue features a host of proven strategies for dealing with fiscal management, marketing, information technology, benefits and compensation, legal and tax issues, office operations, coding, and human resources that practice administrators, practice managers and physicians face on a daily basis.
After 20 years as Editor of The Journal of Medical Practice Management, Marcel Frenkel, MD, MBA writes his final editorial on the current healthcare environment and offers suggestions in this piece called, "A Hope and A Prayer."
The Physician as Witness by Daniel I. Small, Esq. This editorial addresses the, "Four E's" to help explain the challenges doctors face as witnesses and the challenges lawyers face in preparing them.
Avoiding Leasing Pitfalls by Karen Zupko and Melissa Lupella: This editorial explains some of the most common misunderstandings in the leasing process, such as types of leases, rentable vs. usable space, escalations, and other considerations.
Preliminary Screening of Job Applicants in 5 Steps by Laura Sachs Hills, M.A.: In this editorial, the author suggests a five-step screening technique that will help you identify the best applicants from a large pool. The editorial explains how to eliminate unsuitable candidates and offers practical guidelines for ranking qualified applicants. It also offers advice about verifying job eligibility and using tests in the application process.
Failure to set forth an appropriate framework for collaboration and employment between physicians can be the source of much distress and acrimony. This podcast covers an editorial from Steven Peltz and provides practical guidelines that will help physicians structure corporate or partnership agreements and employment agreements that are fair and clear.
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.
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.
Parental and sick leave are medical staff benefits that can lead to all kinds of problems. An article by Laura Sachs Hills is presented as a podcast.
Ten Things to Do When Investigated By Regulatory or Government Agencies by Glen D. Crick, J.D.: Physicians may become the object of investigation by a variety of regulatory and governmental bodies. This editorial outlines an approach to responding to inquiries by such agencies in ten steps.
Kent Bottles, MD, Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Medical Practice Management, interviews David C. Leach, MD, Executive Director of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
Kent Bottles, MD, Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Medical Practice Management, interviews David C. Leach, MD, Executive Director of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)