Practice Management

When we talk about improving productivity in a podiatry practice, the conversation often focuses on patient volume, scheduling, collections, and revenue. But one of the most important factors influencing productivity is something we don’t always measure: How well does your team work together, and how effectively do employees use their time?

What happens when you see an industry need and want to fill it with a new product or service but need funding to make it happen? Movemints® started as a personal project.

It was just October, and while ghosts, goblins, and haunted houses may be on everyone’s minds, there are some much scarier things lurking in your podiatry practice! Unlike Halloween decorations, these frightening situations can haunt your practice all year long.

As we close out Q3 and begin Q4, this is the perfect time to ask yourself a simple question: Do you know what your numbers are telling you?

As more insurance companies eliminate their individual provider portals and move eligibility and benefit verification to platforms such as Availity, practices need to make sure staff understand an important distinction:

You may have an office manager who is exceptional at running the business of your practice. She understands your billing, scheduling, systems, finances and daily operations. She is organized, dependable and knows the practice inside and out.

Healthcare spending is a lingering political issue both because it has become a significant fraction of total GDP and also because of perceived inequities. Here, I consider various theories as to why costs have increased, the data that support or refute them, and the prospects of future cost control due to improved technologies.

My husband severely lacerated his thumb this week, including tendon involvement. What began with an urgent care visit quickly turned into a trip to the Emergency Department and treatment by a hand surgeon.

Last week’s Pro Tip discussed communicating and documenting general non-compliance. Today let’s specifically discuss what should be happening when high-risk patients miss appointments.

In keeping with our Pro Tip theme from the last two weeks I thought it appropriate to dive further into the fact that not every doctor-patient relationship is going to work. Repeated failure to follow medically necessary treatment, chronic no-shows, abusive or belligerent behavior toward the doctor or staff, or a complete breakdown in the doctor-patient relationship may eventually make continued care inappropriate.