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Journal of Medical Practice Management

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The Journal of Medical Practice Management.

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  1. Thinking About a Direct Primary Care Practice?

    JMPM January/February 2023 Rob Lamberts, MD, Michael J. Sacopulos, JD

    DPC (where patients pay a flat fee for their care) combined with the smart use of technology empowers patients, creates the true “medical home,” and redefines the way doctors think about patient care.

  2. The Time to Start Succession Planning is Now

    JMPM January/February 2023 Timothy W. Boden, CMPE

    Whether you’re in solo practice or a member of a medium-sized or large medical group, you eventually will have to face the complicated questions regarding your exit strategy.

  3. The Link Between Physician Stress, Burnout, and Disruptive Behaviors

    JMPM January/February 2023 Alan H. Rosenstein MD, MBA

    Increasing levels of stress and burnout are aggravating disturbing physician behaviors. Although it is difficult to document a cause-and-effect relationship between stress and burnout and disruptive behaviors, the imp...

  4. The Challenges of Being a Positive Role Model for Your Employees

    JMPM January/February 2023 Laura Hills, DA

    Being a positive role model for your employees is a lot harder than it sounds. This article describes the values, attitudes, and behaviors that are worth modeling for healthcare employees. It also offers healthcare ex...

  5. The Balancing Act of Clinical Leadership: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

    JMPM January/February 2023 Anne C. Jones, DO, MPH

    As the world braces for life post-pandemic, we offer these lessons to our future colleagues, emphasizing the importance of ensuring that true leadership reflects the voices and experiences of the front-line staff and ...

  6. Taking Advantage of Health IT: Applying New Technology, Care Collaboration, and Telemedicine

    JMPM January/February 2023 Ken Terry

    By the time we have Medicare for All and the physician-led reform model could conceivably be implemented, the building blocks of the technological future will be in place. At that point, these health IT tools can be e...

  7. Provider Financial Pressures Mount in 2023

    JMPM January/February 2023 Andy Sobczyk, MHA, FACMPE

    Based on the economic factors described in this article, there are several key topics to know and monitor as 2023 begins.

  8. It’s Not Obsolete to Have a Practice Retreat

    JMPM January/February 2023 Taylor Cowart, MBA, Neil Baum, MD

    This article discusses the importance of a practice retreat and offers suggestions for conducting a meaningful and productive retreat.

  9. Is There Value in Physician Coaching? Implementation of a New Paradigm

    JMPM January/February 2023 Timothy E. Paterick, MD, JD, MBA

    Coaching provides education, motivation, skill development, and insight when helping to facilitate an individual’s competency in and mastery of a particular discipline. Physician coaching has been identified as critic...

  10. How Health Systems Can Survive: The Case of Musculoskeletal Care

    JMPM January/February 2023 Lee D. Kaplan, MD, MHCM, Richard J. Boxer, MD

    Health systems must be part of the solution of patient care delivery in the musculoskeletal area, as they understand complex situations based either on the diagnosis or patient health conditions. The solution is not i...

  11. Financial Controls in the Healthcare Practice: Using Emotional Intelligence to Trust and Verify

    JMPM January/February 2023 Susan Fink Childs, FACMPE

    This article discusses the use of emotional intelligence for physicians and the administrative staff to help mitigate financial risk in the healthcare practice.

  12. The Pros and Cons of Transparency in Healthcare Leadership

    JMPM November/December 2022 Laura Hills, DA

    This article takes a balanced view of leadership transparency and argues that more transparency is a not a one-size-fits-all answer to every leadership challenge.

  13. Servant-Leadership is a Mindset Not a Method

    JMPM November/December 2022 Timothy W. Boden, CMPE

    Leaders of top-performing practices consistently demonstrate the qualities of servant-leadership.

  14. Remote Patient Monitoring and Telehealth

    JMPM November/December 2022 Ken Terry

    A major branch of telehealth is remote patient monitoring, which includes home and mobile monitoring.

  15. Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D: Medicare “Money Ball”

    JMPM November/December 2022 Timothy E. Paterick, MD, JD, MBA

    This article is a brief introduction to the largest United States healthcare insurance company—Medicare and Medicaid.

  16. Hiring Independent Contractors, Outsourcing Work, and Hiring Consultants for your Healthcare Practice

    JMPM November/December 2022 Michael B. Spellman, PhD

    This article covers tips on hiring contractors, outsourcing work, and hiring consultants.

  17. Healthcare Leadership Problems Faced During and After COVID-19: A Continuum

    JMPM November/December 2022 Bensson Samuel, MD, PhD, DBA

    COVID-19 has changed the landscape of healthcare delivery and management. The challenge currently being faced is finding ways to improve healthcare leadership within the framework of the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19.

  18. False Claims Act: Doctors Be Aware

    JMPM November/December 2022 Lawrence Kobak, DPM, JD, Neil Baum, MD

    This article describes the False Claims Act, reviews the financial consequences of a whistleblower reporting fraud within the office, and offers reasonable suggestions to prevent a False Claims case.

  19. Developing a One-Page Marketing Plan: Part III

    JMPM November/December 2022 Allan Dib, Neil Baum, MD

    In this article we discuss how to create a world class experience for your patients that will convert them into devoted fans.

  20. Create Workplace Social Capital for High-Performance Teamwork

    JMPM November/December 2022 David F. Smith, PhD

    Workplace social capital (WSC) is critical to high-performance teamwork and is a key to great organizational outcomes.

  21. Improving Ongoing Maintenance of an Actionable Problem List With AI-Enabled Chart Review

    JMPM November/December 2022 Jeffrey Lowenkron, MD, MPP, Robert Reilly, MD, Mirko Roethlisberger, MD, Crista Willis, RN

    The Villages Health, a patient-centered, community-based health system automatically identified quality-improving and revenue-enhancing clinical insights buried in legacy EMR data.

  22. Understanding Medical Marijuana

    JMPM September/October 2022 Neil Baum, MD, Richard J. Boxer, MD

    This article describes the medicinal effects of marijuana and evidenced-based current applications for marijuana.

  23. The Stellar Healthcare Team: How to Take Your Good Employees to the Next Level

    JMPM September/October 2022 Laura Hills, DA

    This article argues that a “good-enough” healthcare team is *not* good enough and explores why a *stellar* healthcare team must be every healthcare executive’s goal.

  24. The Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation and Physician Suicide Awareness

    JMPM September/October 2022 Michael J. Sacopulos, JD, J. Corey Feist, JD, MBA

    In this episode of SoundPractice, Mike Sacopulos interviews J. Corey Feist, JD, MBA, the Co-Founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation, about the mission of the Foundation, Dr. Lorna Breen’s tragic story, and r...

  25. Leadership in Medicine: The Importance of Mentorship

    JMPM September/October 2022 Timothy E. Paterick, MD, JD, MBA

    Mentorship is indispensable for the successful navigation of individual careers in academic medicine.

  26. Is Job Crafting Good for Your Team?

    JMPM September/October 2022 David F. Smith, PhD

    High-performance teamwork is based on a trusting relationship between a team leader and the team members. Job crafting is a way to communicate that their leader cares about them individually, which supports trust.

  27. Handling the Tougher Callers in the Healthcare Practice

    JMPM September/October 2022 Spencer Peller

    Tough calls can be handled effectively in the healthcare practice, but it takes practice.

  28. Do Your Due Diligence When Working with New Vendors

    JMPM September/October 2022 Timothy W. Boden, CMPE

    This article offers guidance on checking vendor references when making major purchases.

  29. Developing a One-Page Marketing Plan: Part II

    JMPM September/October 2022 Allan Dib, Neil Baum, MD

    This article discusses the management of leads or potential patients who have not made a commitment to join the practice and how to convert those potential patients to paying patients.

  30. Care Delivery Provisions in the ACA

    JMPM September/October 2022 Ken Terry

    The ACA’s care delivery provisions attempt to move providers from pay for volume to pay for value in gradual steps.

  31. Why the HIPAA Privacy Rules Are Important for Physicians to Know

    JMPM July/August 2022 Timothy E. Paterick, MD, JD, MBA

    This article addresses the innumerable effects HIPAA has on physicians’ daily medical practice.

  32. The Tyranny of the Practice Overhead Debate

    JMPM July/August 2022 Daniel K. Zismer, PhD, Gary S. Schwartz, MD, MHA

    Although effective management of practice overhead is always prudent, real practice overhead ratios explain very little of the *net financial yield* performance, or potential of a medical practice.

  33. Refresher on Health Insurance

    JMPM July/August 2022 Michael B. Spellman, PhD

    This article clarifies the meanings of insurance terms that healthcare entrepreneurs should familiarize themselves with.

  34. Physician Career Transitions

    JMPM July/August 2022 Peter B. Angood, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, MCCM, FAAPL(Hon), Jay Bhatt, DO, MPH, MPA, Michael J. Sacopulos, JD

    Mike Sacopulos, host of the SoundPractice podcast, interviewed physician leaders Dr. Peter Angood and Dr. Jay Bhatt on strategies for career transitions.

  35. Pearls Are a Woman’s Necktie

    JMPM July/August 2022 Grace E. Terrell, MD, MMM, CPE, FACP, FACPE

    This is a deeply personal story that speaks to many elements in Dr. Terrell’s life that were not directly pertinent to her day-to-day role as a physician executive.

  36. Mental Health of Puerto Ricans Living On and Off the Island After Hurricane Maria

    JMPM July/August 2022 Gerardo Fernandez, Neil Baum, MD

    This article discusses the lasting effects of a natural disaster on those who are immediately affected, as well as the far-reaching effects on the mental health of those who are far from the devastation.

  37. Know Yourself: Your Emotional Intelligence Quotient and Behavior

    JMPM July/August 2022 Matthew J. Mazurek, MD, MHA, CPE, FACHE, FASA, FAAPL

    This article explains the basic tenets of emotional intelligence as it relates to physician leadership.

  38. It Is Always Tough: Challenges for a Healthcare Manager

    JMPM July/August 2022 Timothy W. Boden, CMPE

    Building a team that excels during a crisis requires extraordinary *leadership*.

  39. Healthcare Leadership for Introverts

    JMPM July/August 2022 Laura Hills, DA

    There is a common misconception that introverts can’t be effective leaders because they are too quiet and unassuming for the job. This article argues that introverts can and often do become great leaders precisely bec...

  40. Employee Turnover: Why Medical Practices Lose Good Employees

    JMPM July/August 2022 Heather M. Moore, MHA, Lihua Dishman, DBA, John Fick, EdD

    This study suggests that there are simple institutional fixes that can be implemented to better retain high-performing employees.

  41. Computers Will Not Replace Us

    JMPM July/August 2022 Neil Baum, MD

    Artificial intelligence, or deep learning, might be the game-changer in healthcare that the computer was to technology in the early 1980s. But physicians have nothing to fear about being replaced by AI.

  42. Teaching New Doctors Old Tricks: Greek Medicine’s Impact on Modern Healthcare

    JMPM May/June 2022 Neil Baum, MD, Alvin Merlin, MD, MBA, CPE

    This article provides a brief history of early Greek medicine and discusses how those early physicians have impacted modern medicine and presents lessons we can learn today from those giants whose shoulders we stand u...

  43. Should Long-Term Care Facilities be Considered Cost-Efficient in Future Medicare and Medicaid Financial Policies?

    JMPM May/June 2022 Hanen Fernandez Rojas, Lauren Ma, Stanley Sun, Robert Steele, MS, Janis Coffin, DO, FAAFP, FACMPE

    By not discharging patients to LTCHs and using equally functional post-acute care alternatives such as skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehab facilities, or home healthcare, Medicare could save $4.6 billion a yea...

  44. Medical Malpractice: An Introduction to Tort Law Part IV: Liability

    JMPM May/June 2022 Timothy E. Paterick, MD, JD, MBA

    It is prudent for every physician to understand tort law and the foundations of medical negligence, because medical negligence is the most common basis for a medical malpractice action.

  45. Health Information Technology and Physician Leadership

    JMPM May/June 2022 Grace E. Terrell, MD, MMM, CPE, FACP, FACPE

    The perpetual influx of innovative technologies into the healthcare delivery process simultaneously offers ongoing medical advances and personal challenges for practicing physicians.

  46. Developing a One-Page Marketing Plan: Part I

    JMPM May/June 2022 Allan Dib, Neil Baum, MD

    This article provides you with the nine components of a one-page marketing plan that will be easy to create and implement into nearly every medical practice.

  47. Creating an Exceptional Onboarding Experience for Your New Employees

    JMPM May/June 2022 Laura Hills, DA

    This article argues that healthcare organizations should create exceptional onboarding experiences and describes what exceptional onboarding looks like.

  48. Create Your Corporate Culture by Teaching Values and Beliefs

    JMPM May/June 2022 Timothy W. Boden, CMPE

    Top performers — smooth-running, efficient medical practices that consistently produce well above average profitability — almost always present a noticable kind of ambiance to patients and visitors.

  49. Changing How We Think About Difficult Patients

    JMPM May/June 2022 Joan Naidorf, DO, Michael J. Sacopulos, JD

    Addressing a problem that is rarely discussed in the patient care context, author Dr. Joan Naidorf describes the four types of difficult patients, and introduces simple, actionable tools that every physician, nurse, a...

  50. COVID-19 Renews Interest in the Psychiatric Symbolism of Windows

    JMPM May/June 2022 Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA, CPE, DFAAPL

    Windows are gateways to the human mind, and looking through them is a time-honored exercise in reflection and introspection.