MGMA In Practice blog

This past year in healthcare has been a busy one. From the economic downturn to healthcare reform, we've covered a little bit of everything on the blog. The top-read stories this year included favorite topics such as physician compensation and recruitment alongside newcomers such as recommended healthcare Twitterers. Relive your favorites or discover new posts you hadn't read before.

1. Goodbye Medicare consultation codes: Your practice's next steps
   CMS' plan to eliminate consultation codes holds the potential of crushing the bottom line of many medical practices. Here's how you can prepare.
2. Key findings from MGMA's physician compensation survey
   Take a deeper look into MGMA physician compensation survey data and see why physicians in nonhospital-owned practices earn more.
3. Top billing and coding tips for any medical group practice
   In this economy, it's more important than ever to ensure a practice's medical billing and coding staff are efficient and productive.
4. How to collect from patients at the time of service
   Despite economic challenges, your medical practice can do several things to increase collections while a patient is still in your office.
5. How to get noticed by recruiters of medical group practice jobs
   Are you a jobless medical group practice administrator? Dust off the resume and land your next gig with these five medical resume writing tips.
6. Practice management 101 for physicians
   MGMA's Lessons for Financial Success free tools offer powerful resources to help physicians and practice managers improve their business operations.
7. 4 physician compensation models for your group practice or hospital
   Tune up your physician compensation model with these four ideas for your medical practice or health system.
8. 10 healthcare Twitterers you should follow
   We rounded up a few of the healthcare professionals and medical publications we like to follow. Who's on your list?
9. Integrated delivery systems: Understand and avoid the deal breakers
   Medical group practices that affiliate with hospital systems immediately begin to produce red ink. So why join an IDS? Here's how to achieve success.
10. Tips for successful physician recruitment and retention
    From finding candidates to closing the deal, try these ideas in your medical practice for physician recruitment and retention.

P.S. Last year we did a wrap up of the most popular articles on mgma.com.

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