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Stay On Track, Part Deux
My last blog post talked about changing our views on how we evaluate our practice. I mentioned that instead of comparing how well or not one did last month or last year in terms of our critical...
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Medical Practice: Insurance Distribution
Looking through some numbers from last year, I found an insurance distribution graph in my archives. Essentially, this graph lets me glance at our top payers, and what they represent to us in terms of...
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How Your Medical Practice Can Hedge Against Loss of Visits
One of the numbers that I check regularly month after month is number of patients seen. One of the advantages of tracking these numbers is that they are a good forecasting tool. Studying the numbers...
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10 Practice Management Reports That you Haven’t Thought Of.
There is a very common phrase in the business world that says, you can’t improve what you don’t measure. As with any business, there are many different things one can measure at our pediatric...
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Why is Measuring Sick to Well Ratio Important for your Pediatric Practice?
Simply put, measuring wellness-to-sick ratio estimates the focus a practice has on preventive care. And how can this info help your practice? Data shows that practices that have fewer sick visits to...
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I Don’t Know How Else To Put This, But My Ebook Is Kind of a Big Deal
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you probably know about my e-book, 101 Ways to Transform Your Practice. If you haven’t picked it up (it is free by the way) I wanted to give you a little nudge...
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Leaving a Hospital Job to Start a Solo Practice
Dr. Lois Freisleben-Cook is a pediatrician that started her practice after completing a two year contract with the local hospital. These days, you don’t hear about too many docs leaving hospital jobs...
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#4: Front Desk Benchmarking [Practice Management VideoCast]
Chip and I recorded our 4th episode of our Pediatric Practice Management VideoCast. In this episode, Chip and I talk about benchmarking, specifically front desk benchmarking. I have a little hard time...
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#6 Learning Steps to Budget for Your Medical Practice [Practice Management...
In this episode, Chip and I have our first guest. Paul Vanchiere was kind enough to sit down with us to talk about budgeting. Why budgeting? Well, I suspect that this is an area where many practice...
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Easy, Easy Way to Implement A Survey Tool in Your Medical Practice
I’ve been thinking about implementing a more streamlined survey tool. But this is one of those things that you know is important, but not necessarily a priority. That is, nothing is going to fall apart...
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#8 Key Metrics We Should Use to Gauge the Financial Health of Our Medical...
Chip and I continue our discussion on key reports we ought to be looking at when assessing the financial health of our practices. In this AwesomeCast, Chip and I talk about E/M distribution,...
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#20 Key Performance Indicators Smart Practice Managers Measure [Pediatric...
For today’s AwesomeCast, I invited my friend Paul Vanchiere from the Pediatric Management Institute. Apparently, Chip had more important things to do… Pfff. Family. So he was MIA for this recording. If...
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What Every Pediatric Practice Manager Needs to Know About Vaccine Inventory
This is a guest post by Paul Vanchiere. He is the co-founder of Pediatric Practice Institute, a pediatric centric service company that helps practices and healthcare networks leverage their success and...
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#23 Step by Step Guide To Setting Prices For Your Medical Practice [Pediatric...
At the end of last year, Chip and I talked about New Years resolutions. I shared a few things I had on my list of things I wanted to accomplish in 2014 and Chip provided several suggestions we could do...
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What Does Taking Patient Vital Signs Have To Do With A Medial Practice’s...
I don’t know about you, but when I first started managing our practice, it took me a while to understand what part of the business I needed to measure. In other words, what were the best performance...
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