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Newsletter Archive
- 2013:5: What are Better Performing Medical Practices Doing Better Than Their Peers; New Health Insurance Coverage Notices Will Be Required by Most Employers Starting 10/1/13; Incident to Billing: Bill at Your Own Risk
- 2013:4: How to Develop, Communicate and Implement an Effective Earned Time Off Program; Hospital – Physician Mergers: Practical Issues and Steps to Minimize Antitrust Risk; Charges for Missed Appointments by Medicare Patients; Recent Blog Posts
- 2013:3: Medicare PECOS Edits Begin May 1, 2013 – Claim Denials Possible; Product Spotlight – PhoneMyDoctor; Have You Considered the Alternatives to Selling Your Practice to a Hospital; Five Steps to PECOS Enrollment
- 2013:2: Can a Physician Bill Medicare Claims on Paper; Medical Practice Included in Hospital Affiliated Group; HIPAA Privacy Assessment Checklist
- 2013:1: Be Certain Staff Knows Your Revenue Cycle Management Processes; OIG Approves Per Diem Call Pay Arrangement; Individual Tax Changes Included in the Fiscal Cliff Legislation
- 2012:11: Physician Owner Agreements: Identifying and Addressing Five Risk Areas; Debt Consolidation for Physicians; Are You Paying Attention to Your Coding Practices? You Better Be.
- 2012:10: Physician Owner Agreements: Identifying and Addressing Five Risk Areas; Lessons From The Premier Health Care Alliance's Accountable Care Collaborative; Managed Care Information Summary Sheet
- 2012:9: Does Your Clinic or Healthcare Organization Live and Breathe What You Put in Writing?; Physician Practice Settles HIPAA case for $1.5 million; Drafting Independent Contractor Agreements
- 2012:8: Physician Compensation and Managed Care Contracting; Inspector General Weighs In on Fee Sharing; Know the Facts Before You Choose a DI Policy;
- 2012:7: When Was The Last Time You Reviewed Your Personnel Manual From A Legal Standpoint; Healthcare Act Tax Changes Affecting Physicians in 2013; Practice Flow Concepts Every Doctor Should Know;
- 2012:6: Time for Some Midyear Tax Planning; Will You Have Enough? Attaining Financial Security Requires Careful Planning; Patient Overpayments and Escheat Laws;
- 2012:5: Coding Trends of Medicare Evaluation and Management Services; Daily Operations and Managed Care in a Physician’s Office; One Way to Maintain Profitability – Retaining Key Employees in Your Medical Practice;
- 2012:4: NSCHBC Annual Meeting – Plan to Attend; The Siren Song of Hospital Employment; Your Compliance Sh^% Better Be Together; Protect Your Medical Practice from Financial Loss with Expense Disability Insurance
- 2012:3: A New RTACPA Website; Update buy-sell agreements to sidestep conflict when physicians leave; HIPAA Privacy & Security Audit Program Begins – Are You Ready?; A HIPAA Privacy Test
- 2012:2: Is That Person Really an Independent Contractor; One Physician’s Tax, Personal Problems Could Land on Your Practice’s Bottom Line; Do Your Due Diligence before Adding Ancillary Services
- 2012:1: Medical Practice Accounts Receivable Statistics: A Quick-Check Guide; The Basic Tenets of a Good Physician Practice Collection Strategy; Medical Practice Product Spotlight: The Revenue Maximizer
- 2011:7: Year End Tax Planning for Doctors; Evaluating Your Medical Practice; External Chart Audits
- 2011:6: Finding and Using Outside Advisors for your Physician Practice; Nation's Physicians Unhappy with Healthcare Reform Measures; FTC Settlement Order Bars Texas Doctors' Group from Joint Price Negotiations
- 2011:5: Avoid Bad Business Practices That Can Harm The Reputation of Your Medical Practice; Midyear Tax Planning for Doctors; Regularly Evaluate Your New Doctor Associate
- 2011:4: Don’t Just Sit There Doctor – Start Merging; Mixing Business and Pleasure with Travel; Recent Medical Review of Established Office Visits – Lessons to be Learned; Health Care Reform W-2 Guidance from IRS
- 2011:3: Should You Consider Selling Your Medical Practice to a Hospital; Messenger Model IPAs Must Always Keep Antitrust in Mind; Healthcare Reform Law and Mandatory Compliance Programs; Official Version of CMS Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Rule Now
- 2011:2: Increase Medical Practice Profitability by Reviewing Medical Practice Reports; Strategic Planning Programs for Medical Practices; ACOs and the Little Guy
- 2011:1: Use utilization data to increase managed care reimbursement; Physician disability insurance; Start paying attention to your medical practice
- 2010:7: The Urge to Merge Physician Practices: Things to Keep in Mind in the Beginning; Business Planning for Medical Practices; The New Small Business Jobs Act of 2010
- 2010:6: A strategic planning self-assessment for healthcare professionals; Financial Planning–Helping You Achieve Personal Financial Success; Healthcare Antitrust & Innovation and Efficiency in Health Care Delivery
- 2010:5: Disability Income Insurance: What Every Physician Needs to Know; Are You Creating Loyal Patients?; The Process to Renegotiate Managed Care Contracts
- 2010:4: Improving a Medical Practice’s Receivables Collections; NSCHBC releases physician benchmarking survey; Physicians Should Watch Out How They Pay Out S Corporation Distributions
- 2010:3: Administrator Performance Review Criteria; Health Care Reform: Impact on Employers and Employees; Medical Practice Tax Update-Vehicle Expense Substantiation; Checklist for Medical Chart Audits
- 2010:2: Non-Financial Retirement Planning for Physicians; Physician Practice Compliance Plan Components; How quickly is your medical practice getting paid by payors?
- 2010:1: Antitrust Developments and Enforcement Activities of the Obama Administration; 2009 Tax Law Changes; Medicare eliminates consultation code billing
- 2009:9: Business Process Improvement, Phone Conduct and Patient Satisfaction, Can a Disability Insurance Claim Denied? – You Bet!
- 2010:8: FTC Advisory Opinion Shows Clinical Integration is the Way to Go; OIG Work Plan 2010; Attention Ophthalmologists: Visit EyeDocNews to Discuss Latest Eyecare Technologies and Treatments
- 2009:7:New Book on Lean Six Sigma for Medical Practices; Now is the Time to Review Payments for Contract Labor; Tax Court Ruling on Doctor Being Employee, Not Independent Contractor
- 2009:6: Embezzlement in Medical Practices; How to Value a Medical Practice; Summary of Retirement Plan Options for Physicians
- 2009:5: Revenue Cycle Management in a Medical Practice; Hospital President and CEO Responsible for Unpaid Payroll Taxes; Revenue Cycle Reporting; Welcome to Healthcarebv.com
- 2009:4: Five Things You Should Know About the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009; Structuring IPAs to Jointly Negotiate Fee-for-Service Contracts Pursuant to a Clinical Integration Program; Is Medical Practice Overhead Really to Blame for Today’s Woes?
- 2009:3: Negotiating or Renegotiating Managed Care Contracts; Remember OSHA?; The New I-9 Form
- 2009:2: Successful marketing: Four ways to improve your bottom line; Improving/Maintaining Your Credit Score; Roundup of Tax Changes Included in the Stimulus Act
- 2009:1: Employee theft in medical practices; What’s your practice worth and is there such a thing as goodwill; Scrambling to survive; OIG Investigations – ROI?
- Developing a Merger Team; Physician Documentation Is Still Lacking; Inadequate Coding Raises Medicare Compliance Risks; FTC announces antitrust settlement with doc groups
- 2008:11: Bad News for Noncustodial Parents after Divorce or Separation; CMS issues the final anti-markup rule for physician diagnostics tests; A preliminary analysis of the 2009 RBRVS data set
- 2008:10: Succession Planning for Solo and Group Medical Practices; Want to motivate staff and enhance productivity? Find ways to have fun at work; Patient 10 Day Collection Letter
- 2008:9: Independent Contractor or Employee? How to make the call; Year-end Tax Planning;
Buy Sell Agreement Checklist for Physician Group Practice - 2008:8: Hospital, Doctor Deals Up for Review; Stark Rules Change—Again;
Medical Practice Internal Control Checklist - 2008:7: Steps for Managed Care Contract Negotiation/Renegotiation;
Online doctor visits, paperwork can lessen office wait time for patients; Is your practice tracking no show appointments? - 2008:6: Medicare Payment – Now and Beyond; Audit and Compliance Committee Conference; Midyear Tax Planning; AMA National Health Insurer Report Card; Executive Benefits for Key Employees
- 2008:5: Receiving Payment is Getting Harder for Out-of-Network Providers; Audits for Medicare Put Doctors on Defensive; Avoid Unexpected Tax on Retirement Plan Loans; National Society of Certified Healthcare Business Consultants
- 2008:4: How to Handle Irate Patients; Seven Steps to an Effective Termination; Collection Success Rate Dependent on Length of Deliquency
- 2008:3: Recent OIG Enforcement Actions; Medical Group Denied Charitable Contribution Deduction; Confidentiality Agreement for Drug Reps
- 2008:2: HIPAA audit: The 42 questions HHS might ask; Tips to Keep in Mind When Negotiating a Managed Care Contract; Is it a Hobby or a Business?; What is the role of managing physician?
- 2008:1: HIPAA Security Series: Security Standards: Implementation for the Small Provider; Substitute Physicians; RBRVS: The Best Rx for Treating Physician Compensation
- 2007:12: Summary of New Tax Laws; Employee Benefit Plans and IRA’s; Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
- 2007:11: Watch Trends and Forecast Financials to Improve Fiscal Outlook; Life Insurance Premium Payments Made by S Corporation Owned by Doctors Not Deductible Business Expenses
- 2007:10: Tips to Keep in Mind When Negotiating a Managed Care Contract; Generational Issues; New Medicare Rules Will Impact Many Common Diagnostic Service Arrangements
- 2007:09: IRS Releases Fact Sheet Detailing Its Questionable Employment Tax Practice Initiative; Privacy Rule Enforcement Highlights;Impacts of Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 on Imaging Centers;
Conspiracy Case Brought by Specialty Hospital Against Hospitals and Insurers Will Proceed to Trial - 2007:08: Zeroing Out Year End Physician Practice Profits; Should You Outsource Your Practice’s Billing?; How to Hire and Keep Good People in a Medical Practice
- 2007:7: Strategic Planning for Medical Practices; Proposed Stark Rule Changes; Electronic Health Records
- 2007:6: IRS Releases Executive Summary of Hospital Compliance Project Report; Cost Cutting Strategies For Medical Practices; CMS Seeks Data on Financial Relationships: 500 Hospitals Must Explain Physician Deals
- 2007:5: The Increasing Challenges to Managing a Medical Practice; DOJ Argues That Medical Residents Are Not Exempt From FICA; Physician National Provider Identification Number Rules
- 2007:4: Physician Overhead; Continuity Plan; Steps for Managed Care Contract Negotiation/Renegotiation
- 2007:3: Time Management Techniques; Reducing Overhead Costs; The American Organ Transplant Association Donations; Latest Blog Entries
- 2007:2: Physician Practice Valuation and Stark/AKS; Analyzing Physician Compensation; Locum Tenens; MedPAC Report
- 2007:1: Employees May Qualify for Supervisory Status under the NLRA; Cost Segregation Study
- 2006:8:Year End Tax Planning; Transition to NPI’s; Scrutinizing Medical Practice Overhead
- 2006:7: The Pension Protection Act of 2006; Success Factors for Physician Practice Mergers; Update on National Provider Identification Number
- 2006:6: Docs Take Deeper-Than-Expected Cut in Latest Round of Medicare Regs; Court says medical residents’ stipends may escape income and FICA taxes; Annual Checklist for a Profitable Practice
- 2006:5: Business Planning for Medical Practices; Accrual Basis Taxpayers and Contractual Allowances; CMS Proposes Sweeping Hospital Payment Reforms; Medicare’s National Provider Identification Number
- 2006:4: Retirement Plan Choices; The Importance of Integration in a Group Practice; Preventing Receivables from Getting Old
- 2006:3: Using a Lockbox is a Great Internal Control; HIPAA Privacy Rule Q&A; Look for Payroll Bloat When Reducing Overhead; New Blog Posts
- 2006:2: Another IPA Gets in Trouble with the Government; Final HIPAA Enforcement Rule Published; Look Out for Silent PPO Activity; What’s New at My Healthcare Blog
- 2006:1: CMS Adds Documentation Onus for Referring M.D.; Relative Value Files; Deferred Compensation Plans under Code Section 409A and Medical Practices; New Blog Posts
- 2005:12: Country Club Dues Are Not Deductible – Period?; Top 10 Managed Care Trends for 2005 and 2006; Marketing is “TOO” Important; What’s New at the Blog
- 2005:11: A Simple Physician Compensation Questionnaire; FTC Finds That North Texas Specialty Physicians Illegally Fixed Prices; Sales Tax Deduction Lives On; Recent Posts to My Healthcare Blog
- 2005:10: The Steady Creep Towards Concierge Medicine; Last-Chance Opportunity to Deduct General Sales and Use Taxes; Why Are Many Physicians Poor Planners?; 10 New Files at the Website
- 2005:9: MGMA 2005 Cost Survey; Tax Savings for 2005; The Case for Single Specialty Medical Group Practices; New Healthcare Blog Posts
- 2005:8: Medicare’s Top Billing Errors; Retirement Plan Options; CMS To Stop Processing Incoming Non-HIPAA-Compliant Electronic Medicare Claims
- 2005:7: Cafeteria Plans; Bad Debt Control Checklist; Tax Savings Strategy When Purchasing, Constructing or Expanding Real Estate; New Blog Posts
- 2005:6: Medical Practice Embezzlement; Preferred Provider Organization Pitfalls; Anger Management; New Blog Posts
- 2005:5: Abusive Tax Schemes; HIPAA Security Rule Test; New Bankruptcy Law Enacted; The Reed Tinsley Blog
- 2005:4: Medicare Claims Filing Tips; Physician Coding and Productivity Analyzer; Reference Checking
- 2005:3: Legal Liability for Mishandling SSN’s; Aggressive FTC Antitrust Enforcement Against Physician Groups; Reviewing Charge Tickets; Business Associate Agreements Under HIPAA – Are You in Compliance?
- 2005-2: Payroll Issues for Medical Practices; 116 New CPT Codes; Internal Embezzlement Control Checklist; Billing and Collection System Analysis
- 2005:1: Supreme Court Allows Doctors’ Suit Against Insurers to Proceed; New EMR Implementation Book; 2005 Payroll Highlights; CMS Online Manual System
- 2004:5: “Incident To” Billing; Healthcare Antitrust Update; 2004 Tax Changes; 2005 Mileage Rates
- 2004:4: New Overtime Rules; Managed Care Contracting Newsletter; Antitrust and Merging Medical Practices; Unraveling the Travel & Entertainment Rules.
- 2004:3: Tax Issues Related to Household Employees; Healthcare Fraud; Website Services for Medical Practices; Hiring Good People for a Medical Practice.
- 2004:2: HIPAA Acknowledgment Form; Independent Contractor vs. Employee Status; CMS Updates Stark Regs; Reimbursed Medical Expenses by Cafeteria Plans
- 2004:1: Top 10 Medicare Billing Errors; Common Mistakes in Preparing a 1040; Health Savings Accounts; New FTC Antitrust Enforcement Action Against Medical Group.
- 2003-8: Health Savings Accounts; IRS Refunds; Sample Insurance Company Appeal Letter; Tracking Daily Collections
- 2003-7: CMS Transtion to Web-Based Manuals; Physician Compensation Trends; FTC Physician Price Fixing Charges; HIPAA Compliance
- 2003-6: Negotiating Fee for Service Contracts; Marketing a Medical Practice With Email; Declining Medicare Revenue; Employee Embezzlement Vulnerability Test
- 2003-5: Designing Employee Compensation Programs; Reference Charge to Track Managed Care Requirements; Personnel Record Retention; Tips to Protect Against Identity Theft
- 2003-4: Medicare Update; Physician Compensation Plans; Improving Practice Cash Flow; Tracking Managed Care Reimbursements.
- 2003-3: Protecting Against Fraud; HIPAA Enforcement; Implementing a Follow-Up Recall System; Stark Law Update
- 2003-2: HIPAA FAQ and Checklists; IRS and Physician-Owner Compensation (Pediatric Surgical case); Analyzing E/M Coding Patterns
- 2003-1: Latest CPT/HCPCS Codes; HIPAA Deadlines; IRS and Physician -Owner Compensation
