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TRANSFORMED WORKINGPAPERS AND ARTICLES

The Practice Is Bleeding Internally
Is your practice hemorrhaging red ink? Make sure you're taking the proper preventative steps to insure your practice maintains its financial health.

Leadership Excellence
Strong and effective leadership is a skill that almost anyone can
put into practice by learning the five, basic core competencies of physician leadership.

Office Leaders Dictate Office Attitude
Have you ever wondered to yourself, "What happened today that made the office run so well?" or "Today was such a light day, why did everything seem to go wrong?" Often times, you need look no further than the mirror!

Quality Medical Charts:
The Importance of Proper Medical Record Documentation
he primary functions of a medical practice's patient record are to plan for patient care and provide for continuity in information about a patient's medical treatment and provide high quality care. But quality medical charting can also minimize or prevent the potential adverse consequences of malpractice litigation. Read Nurse Nancy Stimpfel's practical advice on improving your practice's documentation.

Co-pay Collection Best Practices
Is non-collection of co-pays eroding your bottom line? TransforMED Practice Enhancement Facilitator, Jim Arend says, "Co-pay collection is one of the few parts of the revenue cycle that is within direct control of the practice." Find out how practice leadership can improve co-pay collection in just a few concrete steps.

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

» Three Steps to an Effective Practice Budget 
AAFP's Family Practice Management

» SoundPractice.net 
Put your iPod to work with podcasts from Medical Practice Management. Recent topics have included "How Much Does it Cost You to See a Patient?", "Grow Your Practice from the Inside Out" and "How Well-Informed Patients Make Better Patients with Dr. Jeff Gruen of Revolution Health" -- among many others of interest to practices large and small.

» Medical Economics Magazine
Medical Economics magazine is an excellent source for up-to-date information on all topics related to practice management, and especially financial management of medical practices.

BOOKS

» Secrets of the Best Run Practices 
By Judy Capko, published by Greenbranch Publishing

Judy Capko has over 20 years of medical practice management experience and often writes for Medical Practice Management. Topics in this well-reviewed book include capturing charges, charge reporting, revenue recovery, accounts receivable management. embezzlement, teams and turnaround strategies, among many others.