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Financial Management Policies for the Physician Office
Office managers, administrators and physicians are increasingly called upon to make decisions to meet the requirements of a financially sound practice. Advance your skills with the information provided in this easy to understand manual to establish effective financial management policies. |
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| Marketing |
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Marketing Tools Handbook for the Physician Practice
This comprehensive handbook presents a practical approach to marketing a practice in a professional way. The entire manual consists of samples, checklists and guidelines for marketing the new or established practice. |
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| Operations |
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Forms and Letters for Medical Office Efficiency
Features & Benefits:
- Clinical forms for your medical record keeping
- Business forms for financial, insurance patient relations, personnel, accounts receivable management and general office administrative tasks
- Use these materials for the critical requirements of documenting, compliance and privacy
- Get results and achieve efficiency with these letters and forms for correspondence and communication, covering a variety of situations
- Save $$ by printing or copying your own forms in-house
- Improve your patient information system and written communications
- 64 forms & letters on CD to customize, print or copy
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Managing a Practice: Where to Begin
Keeping up with technology needs of your medical office is critical for successful management.
Here are some tools to assist in making decisions and implementing changes.
- Needs Assessment for Upgrading Computer System
- Guidelines for Selecting the Right Computer
- Essential Features of Good Software System
- Specification Guidelines & Installation Schedule
- Key Benefits of Electronic Medical Records
- Analyzing Feasibility of EMR
- Selecting EMR Software
- Steps to Minimize Disruption during EMR Conversion
- Managed Care Requirements to Consider
- Computer and EMR Terminology
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Professional Courtesy Policy Template (CD-ROM)
Under the Stark regulations, medical practices that have "designated health services" (lab, x-ray, imaging, drugs, etc.) and allow professional courtesy (for any medical services) are required to implement special new policies regarding the terms and conditions for courtesy. This template furnishes a complete set of Stark compliant policies for the various types of practice entities (corporations, LLCs, sole proprietorships, etc.), together with appropriate adopting resolutions and template forms for notifying carriers. |
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| Coding |
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2008 Coding Companion for Ophthalmology
Consolidate the coding process with the one-stop resource developed exclusively for those who code for ophthalmology. This comprehensive guide includes complete 2008 CPT® and ICD-9-CM code sets specific to ophthalmology in an easy-to-use, one-page format. Each page has the CPT® code with its official description, a detailed illustration, and the one-page format includes lay descriptions, coding tips, terminology, cross coding and national Medicare relative value units. Getting to the code information you need has never been so easy.
CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. |
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| Personnel and Human Resources |
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222 Secrets of Hiring, Managing, and Retaining Great Employees in Healthcare Practices
Based on the research findings from a wide variety of healthcare providers, clinic administrators, and practice managers, this book provides simple, easy-to-use advice and techniques for successfully recruiting, interviewing, compensating, managing, motivating, training, evaluating, and retaining great employees in the clinical practice setting. |
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Medical Practice Personnel Policy Manual
This template provides an outline of personnel policies for practice management that you can tailor to your practice.
In a growing practice, there is much room for vagueness in employee expectations as more and more unprecedented situations arise. A thorough, well-written policy manual is not only helpful in these situations, it is a necessity. Work rules and expectations should be clearly communicated to employees in this manual.
Crucial components of a manual include the performance expectations for your practice and your employees. You must also specify practice hours, along with guidelines for when employees can take lunches and other breaks. Compensation for overtime hours should also be described. Payroll and tax procedures can be defined here also.
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| Practice Management |
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Custom Physician Fees
Make sure you are setting your fees accurately with our Custom Fee Schedule. Each report is custom printed to your order and features all CPT codes for your specialty and area. Derived from an analysis of over 28 million actual charges from a variety of resources including payors, practices and billing services. This is one of the most current, complete and accurate custom fee reports available.
- Tables include CPT codes, RVU, Medicare charges, 50th, 60th, 70th, 80th and 95th percentiles of surveyed physician charges
- Save time when reviewing and revising your fee schedule.
- Improve the accuracy and completeness of your fee schedule.
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Practice Management STATS Quick Reference
Here are the most powerful and easy to use reference for practice benchmarks. Find out if your practice is up to par. Updated annually, the 2007 report is now available.
Available Reports:
- Printed report, specialty specific to ophthalmology
- Printed report on all 12 specialties
- Printed report on all 12 specialties PLUS CD
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Ophthalmology Practice Buy-Ins and Pay-Outs
What kinds of arrangements are appropriate when a physician buys into a practice? Are you aware of the customary steps taken when a doctor leaves a practice? In the past, the solutions to these questions were fairly simple. Due to new tax concerns and economic changes, the answers have been modified and have gotten more complex.
Ophthalmology Practice Buy-Ins and Pay-Outs reviews and discusses these situations, incorporating all factors that affect the entry or exit of a physician. |
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Ophthalmology Practice Transitions: Starting, Stopping and In Between
This book is a comprehensive and in-depth reference for ophthalmologists who are facing the uncertainties and risks that confront them at key transitional stages of their careers.
In today's ever-changing practice environment, the ophthalmologist must have an understanding of the professional, legal and business challenges that arise in the course of starting, growing and exiting from, a successful ophthalmic practice. This book explains and highlights key non-clinical factors underpinning a successful journey.
Questions dealing with practice start-up's, expansions, phase-down's and retirement are covered in the pages that follow. Of course, ophthalmologists should seek and receive proper advice from the appropriate advisors -- attorneys, consultants, accountants and pension advisors -- and while the author recognizes that no book can substitute for specific advice, he hopes that it will give guidance for those facing new phases in their careers. |
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Playing Fair: Planning Group Practice Compensation
Playing Fair: Planning Group Practice Compensation is a must read and valuable ongoing resource for the group searching for a compensation approach that works, for the consultant who advises on group practice arrangements, as well as the group that thinks it has all the answers. |
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Practice Success Start Up Kit
This kit represents the most comprehensive approach to assisting physicians in the startup of their practice. The kit not only provides extensive guidance and resources for beginning a practice but also continuing support and education in practice management. This is critical for the long term success of a practice. Kit includes:
- Setting Up a Physician Practice
- Policies Procedures & Protocols for Physician Offices
- Marketing Tools Handbook for Physician Practices
- Billing & Collecting Tools for the Physician Office
- Hospital Visit Logbook
- A Physician's Guide to Financial Statements
- Guidelines for Monitoring a Profitable Practice
- The Successful Physician - A Productivity Handbook for Practitioners
- Practice Resources Directory on CD
- HIPAA Training Handbook for Physician Practices
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Selling Your Ophthalmology Practice
For many years, selling an ophthalmology practice has been a common transaction. Recent changes have resulted in an increase in the number of medical practice sales. Reason for this include a fear of the future, encouraged by declining reimbursements, rising overhead costs, and increasing regulation.
If you are considering the sale of your practice to another practitioner, you know there are many legal and business factors involved in such a matter. Selling Your Ophthalmology Practice covers all of these issues in depth, as well as the initial question of whether you should sell the practice at all. If you have already made the decision to put your practice on the market, learn all of the factors involved, from finding potential buyers and determining basic sale terms to securing the right professional assistance. Legal aspects are also fully explored, including how to maximize tax advantages, restrictive covenants, post-sale employment terms, security interests, and other contract provisions. Finally, Selling Your Ophthalmology Practice takes all of these concepts and applies them in a real world situation with a hypothetical medical practice.
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Staff Salary Survey
As personnel costs escalate and competition for quality medical office staff increases, an accurate guide to salary and benefit levels is increasingly essential. The Staff Salary Survey provides nationwide salary statistics for 37 key office positions. Organized by position, years of service, and locale, the Staff Salary Survey also provides data on benefits and turnover rates.
To make the search for location-specific information easier, the summary reports for each position are organized by geographic regions. Regional designations in the Staff Salary Survey, 2007 are:
* Central U.S.
* Mid-Atlantic
* New England
* Southeastern U.S.
* Western U.S.
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| Regulatory and Compliance |
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HIPAA Patient Privacy Compliance Plan
Make sure your practice will be compliant with the patient privacy and confidentiality regulations detailed under HIPAA. The HIPAA Patient Privacy Plan identifies the elements your practice should implement related to patient records and medical claims and provides a basic outline of the necessary policies and procedures. |
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HIPAA Security Regulations Manual
This Manual includes a basic introduction to the new Regulations, which went into effect April 21, 2005; an explanation of each of the 18 required "Standards" for compliance; a template written Security Policy (required by the new rules), checklist of 42 "Implementation Specifications," and key forms to use in implementing your HIPAA Security Manual. Included with the printed manual is a CD with all materials, so that the template plan can be modified and tailored to your practice. |
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HIPAA Patient Privacy Staff Training Module
A key component of compliance under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is staff training. It is your responsibility to ensure that your staff understands your policies on the use and disclosure of patient information. Training must occur as part of new staff orientation, and should also occur on a regular basis. The Health Care Group's HIPAA Staff Training Module takes this burden off you by providing a comprehensive introduction to the crucial elements of patient privacy and individually identifiable patient health information. The HIPAA Patient Privacy Staff Training Module is provided in a narrated Microsoft PowerPoint slide show format, making it an ideal training tool for instructing all staff. (If you don't have PowerPoint, a copy of PowerPoint Viewer is included on the CD.)
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OSHA Exposure Control Plan
The federal government's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires updating of the bloodborne pathogen exposure control plans some medical practices are legally obliged to file.
The OSHA regulations require each employer to establish a written plan for each practice location detailing:
1. those job titles and duties that may expose employees to infection;
2. work routines to minimize exposure;
3. how HBV vaccination may be obtained from the employer;
4. required follow-ups of incidents and exposure;
5. steps to alert employees to biohazards; and
6. recordkeeping requirements.
Keeps you in compliance with OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogen regulations. It is designed to guide and assist practices in their compliance efforts. This model includes the necessary charts and forms.
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Evaluating Computer Systems, Upgrading & EMR
Keeping up with technology needs of your medical office is critical for successful management. Here are some tools to assist in making decisions and implementing changes.
- Needs Assessment for Upgrading Computer System
- Guidelines for Selecting the Right Computer
- Essential Features of Good Software System
- Specification Guidelines & Installation Schedule
- Key Benefits of Electronic Medical Records
- Analyzing Feasibility of EMR
- Selecting EMR Software
- Steps to Minimize Disruption during EMR Conversion
- Managed Care Requirements to Consider
- Computer and EMR Terminology
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