As healthcare reform increases transparency and allows patients to become more savvy consumers, healthcare providers will need to be creative when it comes to attracting patients to their facilities. Essential to this process is transforming your facility's patient experience from…
Practice Management
Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Consultants in West Chester/Middleton, Ohio, recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Jerry Magone, MD, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon at the practice, explains how it has achieved such success.
As physician fees continue to be pressured by Medicare and other payors, it becomes more important than ever for physician practices to look at ancillary services as a possible means to generate additional revenue — simply increasing patient volume may…
Staffing and labor, along with supply costs, is one expense that orthopedic and spine practices can control. If mismanaged, high costs in this area can affect a practice's revenue.William R Pupkis, CEO of Capital Region Orthopaedics in Albany, N.Y., discusses…
Here are five changes and improvements orthopedic and spine practices can make immediately to improve profits in their practices.
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Surveys show that compensation for orthopedic practice administrators varies widely, depending on years of experience, size of the group and many subjective criteria of each practice. Base salaries rose slightly from 2007 to 2008. Here are observations on and trends…
High malpractice insurance costs and tort reform are hot topics for all physicians, especially for orthopedic and spine surgeons. Here, Patrick Sedlak and Mark Aldous, both senior vice presidents with the healthcare practice of insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh…
For orthopedic practices, the quality of the overall experience of their patients is of utmost importance. However, with the rapid pace of everyday operations and the myriad responsibilities physicians and their staffs have, the need to keep a good eye…
Aleksandar Curcin, MD, was born in Novi Sad in the former Yugoslavia and eventually made his way to the East Coast where he studied medicine at the University of Maryland. He performed his orthopedic residency at Brown University in Providence,…
Bruce McCormack, MD, a neurosurgeon and spine specialist who practices in San Francisco, suggests the following five steps to build a successful spine surgery practice.