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Archive (click a hotlinked issue number to view any prior issue)

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!

2009:8: 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?

2008:12: 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: 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