Practice Management

The recent trend toward high-deductible insurance plans has increased patient responsibility for medical billing, especially in high-cost, non-preventative scenarios like orthopedics. "A couple of years ago, the specialists saw 5-10 percent coming to them from patients directly," says Kevin Weinstein,…

Here are five tips for creating a thriving orthopedic surgery center.

Orthopedists at academic medical centers and large hospitals can gather data on orthopedics to further the practice of evidence-based medicine. However, it's also important for surgeons practicing in smaller orthopedic practice settings to gather data on surgeries and outcomes.

Here are six observations about orthopedic-driven surgery centers, based on data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010. For this purpose, "orthopedic-driven surgery centers" are interpreted as surgery centers that perform more than 50 percent orthopedics.

Here are five ways to ensure your orthopedic practice is running efficiently.

Here are five ways orthopedic practices can promote increased patient satisfaction.

Eva-Marie Alexander, west coast regional director of AAPC Physician Services, discusses five ways for orthopedic practices to maintain profitability and growth in their community.

Here are four inexpensive ways orthopedic practices can increase profitablity.

Here are five ways to capitalize on outpatient spine surgery at surgery centers.

Here are four ways to keep orthopedic surgeon implants low at orthopedic surgery centers.