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Friday Philosophy 1 – “Blockbuster”
An area that is often difficult to improve or change in modern day practices is scheduling. The physical act of creating new or modified blocks or changing clinic hours is NOT the problem. The problem IS the effort involved to alter “pre-existing” scheduling mindsets. Allow me to explain. . . Since the beginning of electronic…
August 2nd QPP Deadline for Exception Application Update
If you are stressing over PY2022 MIPS reporting or missed my email from earlier this year about the March 31st deadline to apply for an Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstance Exception, rest easy. Because CMS understands that providers continue to experience circumstances out of their control that make it difficult to meet program requirements, they have…
The Dirty Dozen | Republished from PM News
PM News and Podiatry Management Magazine recently published an article containing pearls from the industry’s top practice management experts. Cindy was honored to be included. Author Mark Terry writes, “Delegate Intelligently. It should come as a surprise to no one that podiatric physicians often want to be in control, often to the detriment of their…
Good news! One more chance to keep your provider relief funds.
In lieu of recent panic from providers who did not receive communications about PRF Reporting Period One (which ended on November 30 last year) or Period Two (which ended on March 31st), HRSA has responded with an email titled “Request to Report Late Due to Extenuating Circumstances.” This is your last chance to keep your…
Physician Burnout Part III: “Stuck”
In previous articles, I described common contributing factors of Physician Burnout while also providing suggestions for avoidance. Recently, however, I realized that I may have omitted a significant contributor. One may even call it a “phenomenon.” I will refer to it as “Stuck.” Practicing medicine is not what it used to be. In Part One…
Physician Burnout: Part II
Physician Burnout: Part II In a previous article, I discussed a multitude of factors contributing to “Physician Burnout” and posed questions that may have caused readers to make unsavory discoveries regarding the financial health of their practices. Those who did more than just skim through the paragraphs relayed a sense of burnout simply from seeing…
Physician Burnout: Part I
Physician Burnout: Part I For more than a decade now I have provided lectures (both in person and virtually) to thousands of podiatric professionals. Topics have varied greatly from finding and keeping good staff, increasing office efficiency, and developing structured policies and protocols, to coding and compliance changes, managing payables and receivables, effective marketing strategies,…
When in Doubt, Cut it Out (or at least part of it)
As the owner of multiple rescue animals and a continual stream of fosters, it seems like I am in my veterinarian’s office weekly. During a recent vaccine appointment (categorized as “tech visit” as the DVM is not involved), I showed the vet tech a lump on Gemma’s right hind leg. For those who are interested,…
Webinar Recap: The “ins and outs” of payment processing
Just in case you missed it, here is a brief overview of the content… (as always, webinar recordings and presentations PDFs are available for Pinnacle practices and PEP subscribers in the member-only library). If you haven’t logged in for a while, what are you waiting for? Finding and keeping “good help” and when to outsource…
