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The Practice
Management Series is one of the FHC's unique offerings to our resident physicians. The lectures are presented to third year residents to help
prepare them for business aspects of medical practice.
This series of presentations is administrated by Mr. Allen Patterson,
CPA, our chief financial officer. Presenters
include Mr. Patterson, other faculty
members, and several outside consultants and experts in their such as accounting,
practice management, law, contract negotiations, and other topics listed below.
- Practice
Management Series Orientation
- Establishing a
Practice (choosing a community and type of practice)
- Licensures,
Registrations
- Typical First
Year Arrangements
- Business Law
Issues
- How To Get A
Good Deal
- Marketing/Management
- Patient
Management (includes scheduling, use of the phone, processing patients,
patient information/education, practice volume, and terminating the
physician-patient relationship)
- Business
Records – Revenues (includes revenue sources, fees and discounts, managed
care basics, accounting systems, collections, credit policies, overdue
accounts processing, third parties and provider numbers, insurance,
Medicare, Medicaid, worker's compensation and industrial accounts,
capitation vs. fee-for-service, and several sessions on E & M coding)
- Personnel
Management (tax information, and hiring, managing, terminating employees)
- Facilities
and Equipment (office location, space, design, owning vs. leasing, expense
sharing, furnishings, phone systems, and both medical and business equipment
and supplies)
- Computerized
Cash Flow
- Medical
Records & Computers in Medicine (includes chart formats, storage and
filing systems, indexing and coding, obtaining and sending records,
inactivating and retiring records)
- Computers
in Medicine
- Professional
Liability Insurance
- Business
Consultants
- Banking
- Personal
Financial Planning/Investors
- Personal
and Business Insurance
- Retirement
Plans
- Taxation
- Medico/Legal
Issues
- Law &
Medicine (including mock depositions with Baylor law students)
- Planning
Your Entry Into Medical Practice
-
Wrap-Up of Practice Management Series
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