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• Simple Patient Financing Solutions for Maximizing Treatments
• CMS Updates Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner Billing
• Commonly Asked Coding Questions in 2022
• Three Ways to Increase Employee Engagement in a Remote Workplace
• Five Mistakes Doctors Make that Can Cause Big Problems
• Tips for Delivering Feedback Based on Brain Science
• 5 Questions Every Older Physician Should Ask Themselves
• What I Learned in Miami at The Aesthetic Meeting 2021: News You Can Use
• Touchpoints of Impression—Seven Areas to Sweat the Small Stuff
• Leasing 101 for 2021
• Five Stages of Patient Interaction – Are You Making the Most of Each?
• Navigating the National Correct Coding Initiative
• ‘Technical Corrections’: CPT Evaluation and Management Publishes Additional Guideline Revisions
• Hiring in 2021? – What to Expect and How to Navigate
• New Procedures Added to Medicare’s Prior Authorization (PA) List Effective 7/1/21
• Is Time on Your Side in 2021?
• A Guide to Selling Your Plastic Surgery Practice
• 5 Inventory Management Mistakes That Cost You Money and How to Fix Them
• Five Coding Tips for Dealing with Third-party Billing Entities
• Prior Authorization Chaos is the New Normal for Spine Surgery
• All Work (RVUs) and No Pay?: Eight Questions to Ask the Hospital about Its Work RVU Compensation Formula
• Therapy Billing: Be Sure Your Team Is Doing Things Right
• Coding Errors Can Cost You Money and Potentially a Sale
• 4 Reasons You Should Prepare a Physician Rights and Responsibilities Document
• 7 Things to Include in Your Practice’s Governance Agreement

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• A Guide to Selling Your Plastic Surgery Practice
• 5 Inventory Management Mistakes That Cost You Money and How to Fix Them
• All Work (RVUs) and No Pay?: Eight Questions to Ask the Hospital about Its Work RVU Compensation Formula
• Coding Errors Can Cost You Money and Potentially a Sale
• Practice Acquisition: How to be Easy to Do Business With
• 5 Questions to Ask About wRVU Compensation
• Get Your House in Order: Prepare for Private Equity Acquisition
• Clean Up the A/R Before Putting the Practice on the Market
• Cost Saving Strategies to Save Your Practice Money
• Selling your practice? Clean up the coding first.
• How to Avoid Common Mistakes When Coding Hand Procedures
• 5 Tips for Analyzing Practice Profitability
• Assess Whether Acquisition Makes Sense for Your Practice
• Take A Bite Out of the No-Show Rate
• Will The Real Conversion Rate Please Stand Up
• Work RVU compensation formulas and surgery modifiers: To discount RVUs or not

• CMS Updates Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner Billing
• Commonly Asked Coding Questions in 2022
• Navigating the National Correct Coding Initiative
• ‘Technical Corrections’: CPT Evaluation and Management Publishes Additional Guideline Revisions
• New Procedures Added to Medicare’s Prior Authorization (PA) List Effective 7/1/21
• Is Time on Your Side in 2021?
• Five Coding Tips for Dealing with Third-party Billing Entities
• Prior Authorization Chaos is the New Normal for Spine Surgery
• All Work (RVUs) and No Pay?: Eight Questions to Ask the Hospital about Its Work RVU Compensation Formula
• Therapy Billing: Be Sure Your Team Is Doing Things Right
• Coding Errors Can Cost You Money and Potentially a Sale
• How to Bill and Get Paid for Unlisted Procedures
• Does My Documentation Tell the Story in Critical Care?
• Seven Common Questions in Foot and Ankle Coding
• Tips and Best Practices for Using Code-X
• Coding Experts Weigh in on the Value of Code-X
• Selling your practice? Clean up the coding first.
• Revisiting Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care Services
• 2019 Billing and Coding Changes for Peripherally Inserted Venous Catheters
• Understand CMS Advanced Billing Practitioner Professional Billing
• Medical Necessity Monopoly: How to Avoid “Chance” and Advanced to “Go”
• Major Challenges Face Coders in 2019 and Beyond
• Highlights of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
• The Value of Claims ‘Signal’ Data in Orthopaedic Surgery
• Is ‘Insurance Only’ Billing Advisable?
• Medicare’s New Documentation Rules Impact Practices
• Wound Care Coding
• Scientific Analysis for Medical Liability Claims
• Is Your Practice Optimizing Coding Resources?
• Answers to Five Common Coding Questions
• Are Online Coding Discussions Putting Your Practice at Risk?
• Don’t Be the Next Victim of Billing Fraud and Abuse
• 2019 CPT® Coding for Skin Biopsies
• AMA Releases 2019 CPT® Code Set
• Reasons Why Diagnostic Coding Matters in Value-based Care
• Protect Your Practice Against Payer Audits with These Preparedness Strategies
• Have You Heard the Latest Professional Liability Risk?
• Tips for Utilizing ICD-10-CM
• Work RVU compensation formulas and surgery modifiers: To discount RVUs or not

• Coding Errors Can Cost You Money and Potentially a Sale
• 7 Things to Include in Your Practice’s Governance Agreement
• Practice Acquisition: How to be Easy to Do Business With
• NEW: Solve Your Practice Pain Points with Practice Solutions Online
• 7 Ways to Modernize Business Writing Mechanics
• Four Tips for Avoiding Data Breaches
• Do Your Cybersecurity Policies Need a Checkup?
• 5 Tips to Boost Efficiency for the Front Office
• Consider These Questions About Mergers Before You Jump
• Six Fundamental Revenue Cycle Management Metrics
• Take A Bite Out of the No-Show Rate
• Refresh your Referral Building

• Clean Up the A/R Before Putting the Practice on the Market
• Cost Saving Strategies to Save Your Practice Money
• 5 Tips for Analyzing Practice Profitability
• Six Fundamental Revenue Cycle Management Metrics
• Protect Your Practice Against Payer Audits with These Preparedness Strategies
• Will The Real Conversion Rate Please Stand Up

• Three Ways to Increase Employee Engagement in a Remote Workplace
• Five Mistakes Doctors Make that Can Cause Big Problems
• Tips for Delivering Feedback Based on Brain Science
• 5 Questions Every Older Physician Should Ask Themselves
• 4 Reasons You Should Prepare a Physician Rights and Responsibilities Document
• 5 Questions Every Older Physician Should Ask Themselves
• NEW: Solve Your Practice Pain Points with Practice Solutions Online
• 7 Ways to Modernize Business Writing Mechanics
• Anatomy of a Lessons Learned Summary
• 5 Tips to Boost Efficiency for the Front Office
• Are Online Coding Discussions Putting Your Practice at Risk?
• Take Your (Clinic) Life Back: Get a Scribe
• How to Hire a Superstar Scribe

• Develop a Data and Device Destruction Policy in Five Easy Steps
• Tips and Best Practices for Using Code-X
• Coding Experts Weigh in on the Value of Code-X
• NEW: Solve Your Practice Pain Points with Practice Solutions Online
• Four Tips for Avoiding Data Breaches
• Do Your Cybersecurity Policies Need a Checkup?
• 5 Tips to Boost Efficiency for the Front Office
• Is Your Practice Optimizing Coding Resources?
• Are Online Coding Discussions Putting Your Practice at Risk?

• Simple Patient Financing Solutions for Maximizing Treatments
• What I Learned in Miami at The Aesthetic Meeting 2021: News You Can Use
• Touchpoints of Impression—Seven Areas to Sweat the Small Stuff
• Leasing 101 for 2021
• Five Stages of Patient Interaction – Are You Making the Most of Each?
• Hiring in 2021? – What to Expect and How to Navigate
• Four Proven Post-Consult Follow Up Techniques
• NEW: Solve Your Practice Pain Points with Practice Solutions Online
• Strategies and Scripts for 4 Common Objections
• 5 Tips for Analyzing Practice Profitability
• Capturing Casual Conversations for Cash
• Will The Real Conversion Rate Please Stand Up
• Evidence Based Pricing Strategy for Plastic Surgeons — Winning the Price Wars
• Put Your Best Face (and Breasts and Body) Forward How to Showcase Your Surgical Results with Clinical Photography
• Going From Free to Fee Consultations. Yes, You Can. Here’s How.
• 9 Mistakes You Don’t Want the Patient Care Coordinator to Make
• Profiles in Plastic Surgeons’ Practice Transitions
• Can This Partnership Be Saved?
• 10 Things a Billing Service Should Provide Your Practice
• 10 Non-Financial Reasons Patients Don’t Schedule
• Dropped Leads, Why They Happen and What to Do About Them
• The 5th P: “Personnel” is Essential to Your Practice’s Marketing Mix
• Rewarding Everyone: Creating Team Bonuses That Work
• Employee Verification
• Build Better Patient Relationships, Faster, Using the FORD Method
• Tighten Cash Handling & Audit Controls: 9 Best Practices That Reduce Embezzlement Risk
• Make Your Last Impression as Good as Your First: Fine-Tune the Fee Quote
• Hiring Right Makes Your Practice More Profitable and Pleasant

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• Is an Annular Repair Separately?
• Bone Anchored Hearing Implants
• Secondary Payor Doesn’t Recognize Consultations
• Facet Fusion
• What Does “Separate Procedure” Mean in a CPT Code Description?
• POST OP Hemorrhage Repair
• Vessel Exploration