Practice Management

Two letters ask that pandemic-era flexibilities become permanent.

Medical networks and smaller practices alike are facing spiraling inflation costs and staffing shortfalls due to waves of COVID cases that are impacting physicians, staff, and management.

Both legal and tax factors come into play when deciding on the best corporate structure for a dermatology practice.

Defining the goals of the mentoring relationship can be useful to clarify expectations.

In this month’s “Meet the Aesthetic Expert” column, Will Kirby, DO, FAOCD, talks with Alexander Zinovy Rivkin, MD, an aesthetic specialist and assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Sunscreen advice, recruiting during the “Great Recession”, and tips for the office led the busy agenda at Winter Clinical Dermatology Conference this weekend.

Lubriderm and the National Hispanic Health Foundation collaborate on the Skin Scholarship sponsored by Lubriderm to help increase United States Hispanic representation and accessibility in dermatology.

In this month’s “Meet the Aesthetic Expert” column, Will Kirby, DO, FAOCD, talks with Emily Kaye Perbellini, MSN, FNP-Ca, board-certified family nurse practitioner specializing in aesthetic dermatology. They discuss how to avoid burnout, challenging patient populations, and the role allied healthcare professionals in aesthetics.

Experts detail 5 tips to ask a financial advisor so they can best serve your interests.

An expert details the ways to gain and retain new practice staff.

Mandell is an attorney and founder of the wealth management firm OJM Group in Cincinnati, Ohio. Braunscheidel is a wealth adviser at OJM Group.

Experts discuss their tips for dealing with difficult patients, including those who refuse to pay, badmouth colleagues, and even cause a scene in the waiting room.

Experts put forth their top pearls to help better take care of patients. Here’s what they said.

O’Dell is the managing partner with OJM Group in Cincinnati, Ohio, a financial consultant, and the author of more than a dozen books on wealth management for doctors. Foos is a partner and lead tax consultant with OJM Group in Cincinnati, Ohio.

There wasn’t much change in healthcare hiring in September.

The two companies are using their DREAM initiative to support the diverse dermatology index.

Margins in August still low along with many volume metrics.

The agency wants to give clarity to the Health Breach Notification Rule.

The funds are available for practices impacted by the pandemic.

Insight about what to document for these visits.

In this month's Legal Eagle column, David J. Goldberg, MD, JD, explores selling your practice to a private equity interest and the challenges that can follow, including staff shortages and longer patient wait times.

185,000 adults with confirmed cases of COVID-19 were hospitalized in June and July. Of those, 182,000, or 98.3%, had not been vaccinated for the disease.

A jump in new COVID-19 cases dropped margins and volumes.

The share of physicians in private practice has dropped below 50 percent.

The development and implementation of quality improvement (QI) programs can positively impact patient care and outcomes. As such, it behooves physicians to research and implement QI practice initiatives and measures in their practice.

Looking to get your practice ahead of the rest post-COVID-19? These 10 practical practice management tips will help you jump start your practice into the future.

Combined, these efforts encourage active participation in the care process and drive sustained behavior change.

At the final part of our Road Map to Recovery webinar recap series, sponsored by Aerolase, our expert panelist answered questions about vaccine mandates, social media marketing, cash balance planning, and more.

These ratios will help you determine the level of financial stability of your practice and help you make better decisions for your future.

In the second part of our 3-part recap series of our Roadmap to Recovery webinar, panelists discuss what aesthetic procedures dermatology practices can add to their existing list to increase profit and patient satisfaction.