Practice Management News and Education

When was the last time you conducted a general check-up on the health of your practice? It may seem obvious, but clinical excellence aside, the care you provide for your patients may be impacted by the efficiency and effectiveness of your practice operations.

Providing valuable insurance benefit options for your employees is one way to help keep your practice operating smoothly. Your staff are one of your most valuable assets and when they have peace of mind about their personal well-being, they will have more energy to devote to you and your patients.

As terrible as the pandemic has been, with its sweeping devastation to medical practices, COVID-19 has prompted physicians to develop new systems and procedures to treat patients. As a result, physicians have turned their shrinking practices into busy offices providing vital services to patients.

Medical practices are increasingly coming under attack by cyber criminals. This makes it all the more important that physicians take steps to improve their security efforts.

My Practice is part of CAP’s ever-growing suite of practice management support programs offering personalized one-on-one guidance to help address common administrative and operational business challenges associated with running an independent practice.

My practice has more than five employees, so I am already aware of the California requirements regarding anti-harassment training. Do you think California will once again push back the deadline?

According to the COVID-19 employment law litigation tracker implemented by the Fisher Phillips law firm. Employers with 50 or fewer employees have been sued at a far greater rate than larger employers, facing a staggering 38 percent of COVID-19-related lawsuits.

Question: The lease for my medical office space is set to expire at the end of the year. Should I try to renegotiate my lease with my landlord? I don’t know where to start.

Ransomware rates exploded in 2020 and predictions indicate it will not slow down in 2021. Here are protective measures you should be taking against ransomware.

In response to the growing public health and safety crisis associated with prescription drug abuse, California lawmakers have introduced a series of legislative bills creating a set of rules and practices to help curb prescription drug abuse and increase controls over the prescribing process itself.