Books and eBooks
I Want to Be a Chief Medical Officer: Now What?
Member Price: $39
Physicians aspiring to become a chief medical officer: Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Look no further than the new book from AAPL and author...
Next-Level Healthcare Employees: Improving the Performance of a Good Team
Member Price: $41
Although healthcare leaders spend a lot of time dealing with the day-to-day operations of their organizations, to be most effective, they must also devote the time and know-how necessary to...
Physicians and Professional Behavior Management Strategies: A Leadership Roadmap and Guide with Case Studies
Member Price: $41
Matthew J. Mazurek, MD, MHA, CPE, FACHE, FASA One of the most difficult tasks physician leaders regularly face is managing and mitigating unprofessional physician conduct complaints from patients, colleagues, nurses,...
The People Value Proposition: See one, Do one, Teach one... LEAD – A Physician’s Journey to Leadership
Member Price: $27
Stanley E. Harris, MD, MA There is a widely acknowledged failure in leadership development across the spectrum, from corporations to communities. The fact is, few organizations are confident in and...
Reframing Contemporary Physician Leadership: We Started as Heroes
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Grace E. Terrell, MD, MMM, CPE, FACP, FACPE The practice of medicine, today, requires transformational skills. Healthcare challenges are no longer adequately addressed by the traditional paternalistic physician role. Healthcare...
The Heart of the Story: My Improbable Journey as a Cardiologist
Member Price: $26
Joan L. Thomas, MD, CPE, FACC with Sandra J. Parker The Heart of the Story: My Improbable Journey as a Cardiologist is an examination of the struggles and successes of...
Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Physician Leaders
Member Price: $25
Edited by Deborah M. Shlian, MD, MBA Women physicians now comprise 50 percent or more of most U.S. medical school classes. Yet relatively few fill the most senior management positions...
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
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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
Member Price: $63
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
Member Price: $50
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
Member Price: $59
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...
The Problem Employee: How to Manage the Employees No One Wants to Manage
Member Price: $41
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...
AAPL Wellness Collection
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...
50 Nonclinical Careers for Physicians: Fulfilling, Meaningful, and Lucrative Alternatives to Direct Patient Care
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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
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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
Member Price: $25
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
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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...
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
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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
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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
Member Price: $51
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
Member Price: $74
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
Member Price: $59
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
Member Price: $59
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
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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
Member Price: $54
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
Member Price: $68
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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
Member Price: $47
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Member Price: $70
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
Member Price: $66
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
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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
Member Price: $55
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...
Non Fee-for-Service Revenue Cycle Management: Managing Patient Service and Clinical Performance to Maximize Healthcare Practice Profit
Member Price: $58
As the healthcare system migrates from the fee for service (FFS) model to a variety of non-fee for service (non-FFS) payment systems, practices/HCOs will be seeking strategies and tactics to...
Lean Six Sigma for the Medical Practice Improving Profitability by Improving Processes
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24 process improvement tools to boost efficiency so more of the revenues that come in go directly to the bottom line. With medical practices facing financial challenges - and lagging...
Keys to EMR/EHR Success Selecting and Implementing an Electronic Medical Record, 2nd Edition
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Comprehensively covers the selection and implementation of electronic medical records for the physician practice. The Second Edition of the breakthrough book for medical practices eager to minimize the costs, confusion...
Integrating Behavioral Health into The Medical Home: A Rapid Implementation Guide
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Integrating Behavioral Health into the Medical Home: A Rapid Implementation Guide offers up- to-the-minute guidance on how to integrate behavioral health (BH) into primary care in a manner which is...
Integrated Ambulatory Care: Key Growth Strategies for Small and Rural Hospitals
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From stand-alone small rural hospitals to facilities that are part of a multi-hospital system, challenges exist to maintain market strength as patients migrate towards larger centers for care. Greenbranch Publishing...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Healthcare Sector: From Idea to Funding to Launch
Member Price: $212
"Over the past 10 years, my academic colleagues and I have successfully started two medical device companies from self-generated device and methods patents. In retrospect, I can tell you that...