Let’s face it — most business and medical practices don’t have the problem of being too efficient in their operations. On the contrary, many medical practices suffer from a range of bottlenecks and redundancies that waste time and energy. These broadly fall into several practice areas, including the front office, the back office and the physicians. Here are eight areas to home in on to improve procedures and reduce waste.
Topics: Healthcare, consulting, medical, practice, How to, dental
Many opportunities may arise in a physician practice for providing ancillary services, depending on the nature of that practice as well as the physicians’ interests. A short list includes anesthesia, diagnostic testing, endoscopy, pain management and physical therapy. (For more examples, see “12 ancillary services to consider.”)
Topics: Healthcare, accounting
Every medical practice faces ongoing challenges in maintaining a successful bottom line. New challenges arise whenever Medicare and Medicaid policy, or the economy, changes. Still, a handful of problems rise to the top in most medical practices. Here are some ideas for solving them before they become overwhelming.
Topics: Accounting Tips, Healthcare, Financial, consulting, doctors, accounting
Management expert Peter Drucker famously said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” Within a medical practice, it’s possible — though not necessarily desirable — to measure anything and everything, ranging from the number of patients per day to the amount of time spent on phone calls. So what should your medical practice measure?
Topics: Accounting Tips, Healthcare, medical, practice
The more people come to your site, the more likely they are to become clients or customers. Continuing to drive people to your site is beneficial for your overall business. In this last installment of the search engine optimization (“SEO”) series, we’ll be covering a few more tips that will help bring traffic to your site again and again.
Topics: Auto, Manufacturing & Distribution, Real Estate, Not-for-Profit, Healthcare, Construction
Welcome to the next blog post in a series of best practices for search engine optimization (“SEO”) and your organization’s website. We’ll discuss user experience (“UX”): what it is, what it means, and what you can do to help potential clients gain a better understanding while visiting your website. We’ll also go over user interface design (“UI”) and how it relates to UX.
Topics: Auto, Manufacturing & Distribution, Real Estate, Not-for-Profit, Healthcare, Construction
In a series of SEO, we’ll discuss different tasks you can do in order to help maximize traffic on your site.
Let’s start from the beginning. What is SEO? SEO stands for search engine optimization. What does that mean? Search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo all use algorithms that decide how to rank sites on their pages, and SEO is the process that helps your site rank closer to the top of the page.
Topics: Auto, Manufacturing & Distribution, Real Estate, Not-for-Profit, Healthcare, Construction, consulting
Is it time to bring on an associate or partner? There are many reasons you might consider it. For example, your practice might have become so busy that you have little time with your patients. Perhaps your practice volume has grown so much that you need help managing it, or maybe retirement is around the corner and you’re thinking about eventually selling.
Topics: Accounting Tips, Healthcare, Financial
Like many industries, the manufacturing industry has fallen to the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) and the updated Department of Labor overtime regulations. Many companies are struggling to maintain their overhead, comply with regulations, and pay for the ever-increasing health care costs, all the while attracting and retaining skilled workers. If you have felt the heat, you are not alone. According to the 2016 Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey, a lot of companies are dealing with these same concerns.
Topics: Manufacturing & Distribution, Accounting Tips, Tax, Healthcare
Managed care, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) all present challenges for a medical practice. On the other hand, many problems that arise are self-inflicted. Is your medical practice not performing as well as expected? Are revenues dropping? Are you having problems covering costs? Take a hard look at your practice and diagnose the problem. To help put you on the road to recovery:
Topics: Accounting Tips, Tax, Healthcare, Audit