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Changing How We Think about Difficult Patients: A Guide for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals

Changing How We Think about Difficult Patients: A Guide for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals

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By Joan Naidorf, DO Physicians enter their professions with the highest of hopes and ideals for compassionate and efficient patient care. Along the way, however, recurring problems arise in their...

Healthcare Economic Reform: How and Why Physicians Must Lead Change Within Our Evolving Healthcare Economy

Healthcare Economic Reform: How and Why Physicians Must Lead Change Within Our Evolving Healthcare Economy

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By Ellis “Mac” Knight MD, MBA Although the healthcare delivery system is as full of committed idealists as it ever was, the difference now is that the current healthcare system...

Lucrative Practices:  The Comprehensive Handbook for Healthcare Executives

Lucrative Practices: The Comprehensive Handbook for Healthcare Executives

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09/01
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By Michael B. Spellman, Ph.D. Starting and owning a well-run, successful practice are two of the most rewarding activities in which a healthcare professional can engage. However, staying ahead of...

Effective Crisis Leadership in Healthcare: Lessons Learned from a Pandemic

Effective Crisis Leadership in Healthcare: Lessons Learned from a Pandemic

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09/01
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By Aimee Greeter, MPH, FACHEMax Reiboldt, CPA COVID-19 thrust the world into a state of crisis for which no one was adequately prepared, and the fact is that no industry...

Physicians and the Law:  The Intersection of Medicine, Business, and Medical Malpractice

Physicians and the Law: The Intersection of Medicine, Business, and Medical Malpractice

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11/01
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By Timothy E. Paterick, MD, JD, MBA, MS Healthcare providers encounter complex problems in medical, business, and legal venues on a daily basis, and in an ever-evolving landscape. However, an...

Resolving Conflict

7 Total CME

Resolving Conflict

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As a physician leader, effectively addressing and resolving conflict is a primary skill that serves you throughout your career and could be life altering for your employees or patients. This...

The Problem Employee: How to Manage the Employees No One Wants to Manage

The Problem Employee: How to Manage the Employees No One Wants to Manage

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01/01
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Healthcare executives must keep their problem employees in line (and keep turnover to a minimum) or fire them without incurring legal consequences. Yet, it is difficult to know how to...

The Neuropsychology of Strategic Thinking

2 Total CME

The Neuropsychology of Strategic Thinking

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This course will facilitate a shift perspective in how we think about, understand, and implement strategic thinking. This course will define strategic thinking in neuropsychological terms and address both the...

AAPL Wellness Collection
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AAPL Wellness Collection

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Introducing the AAPL Wellness Collection, a 6 book bundle available now for $495 (AAPL member price is $421 or lower) covering topics on wellness, finance, presentation, and social media. The...

Essentials of Health Law

8 Total CME

Essentials of Health Law

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If you’ve been searching for a comprehensive education on the most pressing healthcare law issues of today, then this course is for you. The world of healthcare law encompasses a...

Managing Physician Performance

14 Total CME

Managing Physician Performance

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Enroll in Managing Physician Performance to learn how to find — and keep — the most talented physicians. This course provides a blueprint for the hiring and talent management process....

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4 Total CME

Project Management Overview for Physician Leaders

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Physicians are increasingly being asked to tackle projects with high stakes deliverables, but don’t always have the proper knowledge to lead them toward successful outcomes. This course has a unique...

Affiliation Options for Physicians: Current and Future Strategies

Affiliation Options for Physicians: Current and Future Strategies

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08/01
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The number of available affiliation options can be nearly as daunting and confusing as the uncertainty surrounding which model is the best fit for any organization. Choosing the correct model...

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Physician Career Advancement: Mastering Soft Skills

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While strong clinical skills often lead to interviews and job offers for physicians, they aren’t the only factor predicting long term-career success. Employers are beginning to recognize the importance of...

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From Autonomy to Teamwork

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Physicians are traditionally trained to be autonomous in their thinking and actions. However, as new care delivery models emerge placing further emphasis on team-based care, physicians must develop practical teamwork...

50 Nonclinical Careers for Physicians:  Fulfilling, Meaningful, and Lucrative Alternatives to Direct Patient Care

50 Nonclinical Careers for Physicians: Fulfilling, Meaningful, and Lucrative Alternatives to Direct Patient Care

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06/30
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How Physicians Can Leverage Their Clinical Skills to Transition to Another Career By the time they realize their career in clinical medicine isn’t everything they thought it would be, many...

All Physicians are Leaders: Reflections on Inspiring Change Together for Better Healthcare

All Physicians are Leaders: Reflections on Inspiring Change Together for Better Healthcare

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06/30
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All Physicians are Leaders: Reflections on Inspiring Change Together for Better Healthcare COVID-19 is clearly creating significant change in how daily lives are pursued. The impacts on healthcare as an...

Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: A New Approach to Medicare for All

Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: A New Approach to Medicare for All

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06/01
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Today, employed physicians and independent physicians alike feel powerless. Hospital-employed doctors feel like cogs in a machine, and community doctors are increasingly threatened by forces beyond their control. Physician-led healthcare...

Value-Based Healthcare and Payment Models:  Including Frontline Strategies for 20 Clinical Subspecialties

Value-Based Healthcare and Payment Models: Including Frontline Strategies for 20 Clinical Subspecialties

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Value-Based Care and Payment Models As value-based care is coming of age, deciding how to start can be an overwhelming task. Risks are high and success with the new models...

FAST Practice Newsletter - 3 Year Subscription (36 issues)

FAST Practice Newsletter - 3 Year Subscription (36 issues)

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Stay current. Save time. Know more. Earn more. Built on the "journal club" concept, expert editors critically select and summarize sixteen of the most valuable articles from the current literature...

FAST Practice Newsletter - 2 Year Subscription (24 issues)

FAST Practice Newsletter - 2 Year Subscription (24 issues)

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Stay current. Save time. Know more. Earn more. Built on the journal club concept, expert editors critically select and summarize sixteen of the most valuable articles from the current literature...

FAST Practice Newsletter - Annual Subscription (12 issues)

FAST Practice Newsletter - Annual Subscription (12 issues)

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Stay current. Save time. Know more. Earn more. Built on the journal club concept, expert editors critically select and summarize sixteen of the most valuable articles from the current literature...

The Journal of Medical Practice Management - 3 Year Subscription (18 issues)

The Journal of Medical Practice Management - 3 Year Subscription (18 issues)

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The Highest Quality and Most Respected Practice Management Journal Available. Period. MPM is published bi-monthly and is delivered digitally in February, April, June, August, October, and December. Today's physicians, office...

The Journal of Medical Practice Management - 2 Year Subscription (12 issues)

The Journal of Medical Practice Management - 2 Year Subscription (12 issues)

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The Highest Quality and Most Respected Practice Management Journal Available. Period. MPM is published bi-monthly and is delivered digitally in February, April, June, August, October, and December. Today's physicians, office...

Your Ultimate Guide to MIPS, 2018 Edition

Your Ultimate Guide to MIPS, 2018 Edition

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CMS has a way of giving you 1000 puzzle pieces, without giving the clear big picture. This book helps put all the pieces together. Finally! A decoded, organized, easy-to-read, concise,...

What It's Like to Become a Doctor:  A Year-by-Year Journey from Medical Student to Practicing Physician

What It's Like to Become a Doctor:  A Year-by-Year Journey from Medical Student to Practicing Physician

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Dr. Matthew Moeller steps up and provides an educated voice on the challenges confronting all doctors-in-training, ultimately seeking a way forward for more efficient and better patient care. This book...

Unlocking the Value of NPs and PAs: Increase Revenue and Create a Healthy and Thriving Practice with Midlevel Providers

Unlocking the Value of NPs and PAs: Increase Revenue and Create a Healthy and Thriving Practice with Midlevel Providers

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This new book discusses what employers can expect when hiring advanced practice providers and how to help midlevel providers in their practices reach their full potential. The book suggests actionable...

Tweets, Likes, and Liabilities: Online and Electronic Risk to the Healthcare Professional

Tweets, Likes, and Liabilities: Online and Electronic Risk to the Healthcare Professional

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Social media offers healthcare practices a vehicle to attract patients and potential employees, but also presents risk to healthcare providers. This essential book will give you peace of mind by...

Time to Sell? Guide to Selling a Physician Practice: Value, Options, Alternatives 3rd Edition

Time to Sell? Guide to Selling a Physician Practice: Value, Options, Alternatives 3rd Edition

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Best-Selling book for physicians, now in its 3rd edition, helps doctors make the best deals. Physicians are finding themselves in the position of selling their practices in 2020. But selling...

Think Business! Medical Practice Quality, Efficiency, Profits 2nd Edition

Think Business! Medical Practice Quality, Efficiency, Profits 2nd Edition

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If you own, run, or have anything to do with a medical practice, you must read this book. Thousands of physicians and practice managers have relied on the previous edition...

The Three Stages of a Physician's Career: Navigating from Training to Beyond Retirement

The Three Stages of a Physician's Career: Navigating from Training to Beyond Retirement

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Comprehensive Career and Practice Management Skills for All Physicians and Physicians-in-Training Today's medical graduates are superbly trained to practice state-of-the-art clinical medicine.  However, only in rare instances are they trained...

The Prescription for Financial Health An Authoritative Guide for Physicians 2nd Edition

The Prescription for Financial Health An Authoritative Guide for Physicians 2nd Edition

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PLAN, EXECUTE, FOLLOW-THROUGH No matter what age you are, or how long you've been in practice, you can realize a successful financial future Also available in these eBook formats. Kindle...

The Patient-Centered Payoff: Driving Practice Growth Through Image, Culture and Patient Experience

The Patient-Centered Payoff: Driving Practice Growth Through Image, Culture and Patient Experience

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Book Shares Critical Steps in Building A Patient-Centered Organization and a Professional Practice Image For the first time medical practices and organizations are about to see their income either increase...

The Medical Practice Start-Up Guide

The Medical Practice Start-Up Guide

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If you’re starting a practice or joining one, here’s clear guidance for avoiding frustrations and costly mistakes. You’ve spent years preparing to provide high-quality clinical care. You’ve dreamed of starting...

The High-Performing Medical Practice: Workflow, Practice Finances, and Patient-Centric Care

The High-Performing Medical Practice: Workflow, Practice Finances, and Patient-Centric Care

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Master the Principles That Will Ensure Your Healthcare Practice’s Survival It used to be that if you were a good physician, a profitable medical practice followed. But that’s not true...

The Handbook for Credentialing Healthcare Providers

The Handbook for Credentialing Healthcare Providers

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This handbook enables your organization to systemize the tedious, ongoing, and mandatory process of credentialing your medical staff - and to understand why you must! Also available in these eBook...

The Field Guide to Physician Coding 4th Edition (2018)

The Field Guide to Physician Coding 4th Edition (2018)

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"All Physicians can increase their revenue and improve their compensation through accurate coding. This book tells you how." The Field Guide to Physician Coding, 4th Edition delivers a payload of...

The Employed Physician: Your Essential Guide to the Business of Medicine

The Employed Physician: Your Essential Guide to the Business of Medicine

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Giving physicians the business know-how to succeed as an "employed physician" More and more physicians opt for employed positions, either when starting their careers or transitioning from independent practice to...

Take Back Time: Bringing Time Management to Medicine

Take Back Time: Bringing Time Management to Medicine

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Cure your practice’s “chronic crisis management” syndrome! Do constant disruptions, priority shifts, scheduling nightmares, rising costs, coding errors, reimbursement hassles and spiking workloads have everyone in your medical practice working...

Secrets of The Best-Run Practices 3rd Edition

Secrets of The Best-Run Practices 3rd Edition

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Secrets of the Best-Run Practices delivers timely solutions for the critical challenges that medical practices face every day from front desk service, to workflow efficiency, to effective billing and collections,...

RVUs at Work: Relative Value Units in a Changing Reimbursement World 3rd Edition

RVUs at Work: Relative Value Units in a Changing Reimbursement World 3rd Edition

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Sure, you're busy. But is your medical practice productive? RVUs at Work: Relative Value Units in a Changing Reimbursement World, 3rd Ed. is a practical print (and eBook) by Coker...

Quality Care, Affordable Care: How Physicians Can Reduce Variation and Lower Healthcare Costs

Quality Care, Affordable Care: How Physicians Can Reduce Variation and Lower Healthcare Costs

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Book Offers Keys to Putting Doctors in Control Now that health insurance reform has been passed and upheld by the Supreme Court, the real job of reducing the cost of...

Physician – Time to Invest in Yourself: Work-Life Balance, the Needs of the Patient, and Medical-Legal Risk Management

Physician – Time to Invest in Yourself: Work-Life Balance, the Needs of the Patient, and Medical-Legal Risk Management

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Do you feel as if you race from patient to patient and procedure to procedure without time to pause and reflect?  Do you feel that you are melting down both...

Physicians at the Bargaining Table: Alignment, Clinical Integration, Value-based Contracting and Population Health Management

Physicians at the Bargaining Table: Alignment, Clinical Integration, Value-based Contracting and Population Health Management

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Today’s practicing physicians tend to feel hemmed in by the pressures to align with other entities imposed upon them through the changing structures in health care. Also available in these...

Physician-Hospital Alignment and Compensation Models: The Second Generation

Physician-Hospital Alignment and Compensation Models: The Second Generation

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New book helps hospital and health system leaders and physicians enter into better contracts in a value-based world. The current era of healthcare alignment among physicians, hospitals, and outside independent...

Physician Alignment: Ensuring Success with Negotiations, Payment Systems, and Education of Stakeholders

Physician Alignment: Ensuring Success with Negotiations, Payment Systems, and Education of Stakeholders

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The book is the result on hands-on experience from working with clients and understanding of impact of latest changes in accountable care era payment systems. Also available in these eBook...

Own the Phone: Proven Ways of Handling Calls, Securing Appointments, and Growing Your Healthcare Practice

Own the Phone: Proven Ways of Handling Calls, Securing Appointments, and Growing Your Healthcare Practice

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Healthcare Practices, Turn Your Phone Into A Growth Machine This book offers proven methods for securing appointments and expanding practice growth through smart use of your phone. Also available in...

Operation Five-Star: Service Excellence in the Medical Practice - Cultural Competency, Post-Adverse Events, and Patient Engagement

Operation Five-Star: Service Excellence in the Medical Practice - Cultural Competency, Post-Adverse Events, and Patient Engagement

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You must increase the level of customer service in your medical practice, but where to start? In the past, Five-Star Service was perhaps one of the most underestimated concepts in...