Elyas Bakhtiari, for HealthLeaders Media, March 7, 2008
HealthLeaders Media Managing Editor Elyas Bakhtiari caught up with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to discuss Gingrich's thoughts on the state of U.S. healthcare.
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Robert Tenant, senior policy advisor with MGMA, discusses the CMS proposed timeline for implementing the ICD-10 code set and explains the administrative burden it could place on medical practices.
Elyas Bakhtiari, for HealthLeaders Media, August 7, 2008
Craig Sammit, MD, MBA, president and CEO of Dean Health System in Madison, WI, discusses his two-year effort to identify and develop more physicians for leadership roles within the organization.
William F. Jessee, MD, president and CEO of the MGMA, talks about progress being made on preventing the Medicare payment cut and offers suggestions for fixing the reimbursement system.
Patrick Buckley, CEO of PB Healthcare Business Solutions, and author of Physician Entrepreneurs: Marketing Toolkit discusses how to simplify the various components of a marketing campaign by creating easy-to-use tools.
Julie Wright, CEO of Sound Family Medicine, a 28-provider practice in Puyallup, WA, discusses the importance of understanding current and future patient needs and disease trends within a community or service area.
New Orleans urologist Neil Baum, MD, discusses disaster planning and how having an EMR minimized the damage done to his practice during Hurricane Katrina.
In part three of a three-part interview, James Hartert, MD, MS, Chief Medical Officer for MinuteClinic, discusses what physicians might learn from the MinuteClinic experience.
In part two of a three-part interview, James Hartert, MD, MS, Chief Medical Officer for MinuteClinic, discusses the nurse practitioner model and the physician-staffed model for convenient care clinics.
In part one of a three-part interview, James Hartert, MD, MS, Chief Medical Officer for MinuteClinic discusses the collaborative approach the convenient care clinics seek with physician practices.
Keith Solinsky, chief operating officer and principal with The Coker Group, discusses obstacles to implementing service lines and ancillary investments in a physician practice.
Laura Boehlke Bray, physician leader at the Duluth Clinic in Duluth, MN, talks about the importance of providing part-time options as an essential part of retaining and recruiting physicians in your practice.
Carol Westfall, president of Cejka Search, talks about the growing number of part-time physicians and other findings from the Cejka Search/AMGA 2007 Physician Retention Survey.
Beth Averbeck, MD, associate medical director for care improvement with HealthPartners Medical Group, describes her organization's approach to tracking and addressing racial and ethnic treatment disparities.
Elyas Bakhtiari, for HealthLeaders Media, March 7, 2008
HealthLeaders Media Managing Editor Elyas Bakhtiari caught up with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to discuss Gingrich's thoughts on the state of U.S. healthcare.
Mark Reiboldt, senior analyst with The Coker Group, discusses how physician practices can adopt a retail mindset to meet the new challenges of a consumer-driven healthcare environment.
Phil Pin, senior vice president for administration and CFO of ProHealth Physicians, Inc., discusses the financial decision-making process for adding a sleep apnea service line to his 200-physician primary care practice.
Richard Salluzzo, MD, and Anthony Oliva, DO, November 29, 2007
Richard Salluzzo, MD, CEO, and Anthony Oliva, DO, chief medical officer, of Wellmont Health System discuss the strategies that senior leaders can take to improve physician relations.
Rick Johnson, for HealthLeaders Media, October 31, 2007
William Jessee, MD, president of the Medical Group Management Association, discusses the critical issues that today's medical groups face and how they are dealing with a troubling financial landscape.
Carol Westfall, president of Cejka Search, gives a preview of a session she will lead at the annual MGMA conference. She talks about how medical groups need a strategy to develop tomorrow's physician leaders and offers advice on engaging the new crop of MDs. Westfall was interviewed by Rick Johnson, senior editor with HealthLeaders Media.
Mark Murray, MD, a national healthcare consultant based in Sacramento, CA, explains how implementing service agreement contracts can help physician practices become more efficient when referring patients to another physician, leading to satisfied patients as well as an increase in revenue. He will be a panelist on the upcoming HealthLeaders Media audioconference, Streamlining the Referral Process: Use service agreements to increase practice revenue.
John McHugh, associate director at Navigant Consulting, discusses the keys to physician alignment in the cardiovascular service line. He will be a panelist on the upcoming HealthLeaders Media webcast, Service Line Strategies Workshop: Cardiovascular.