| 1.
Release of Patient Information |
A guide for
creating a statement of policy and a procedure for the release of patient
information from a medical practice. With minor adaptation (such as your
practice's per page charges for medical records), this policy and procedure
can be quickly adopted to insure that the practice provides medical record
information only to those authorized by establishing a firm policy and
easy to understand procedure for the physicians and staff.
Price:
$350  File format:
Microsoft Word 97
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| 2.
Job Description - Administrator/Office Manager |
A guide for
creating a job description for the practice's Administrator, Office Manager
or both.
This document
provides the structure for the job descriptions and an extensive list
of key tasks generally assigned to administrators and office managers.
.
Price:
$250 File
format: Microsoft Word 97
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| 3.
Compliance Plan Forms |
A set of
10 forms commonly used in the implementation of a Compliance Plan. The
forms are supplied including a detailed explanation of the use for each
form.
Price:
$250 File
format: Microsoft Word 97
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| 4.
Personnel Policy |
A template for a complete practice personnel policy. The template includes all critical sections of a Personnel Policy with instructions on how to customize each section for your practice's needs and recommendations regarding sensitive issues such as smoking, dress codes, carrying over personal/vacation days year-to-year.
Price:
$500 File
format: Microsoft Word 97
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| 5.
How to Set Up and Manage Personal Time Instead of Vacation & Sick Time for
Staff |
With over
thirty years in various businesses, we have seen hundreds of appraisal
forms. This resource is a combination of the very best and we have used
it for many years in various kinds of medical practices.
The resource
includes recommendations on how to use the form, section by section.
Price:
$300 File
format: MS Word 97, PDF, Excel
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| 6.
Appraisal Form |
With over
thirty years in various businesses, we have seen hundreds of appraisal
forms. This resource is a combination of the very best and we have used
it for many years in various kinds of medical practices.
The resource
includes recommendations on how to use the form, section by section.
Price:
$300 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 7.
Guidelines for Dealing with A Problem Employee |
This is a
detailed procedure for dealing with a problem employee in a way that emphasizes
correcting problems with the goal of retaining the employee while minimizing
the potential for legal action against the practice should the employee
fail to improve to the practice's standards.
Price:
$200 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 8.
Selecting a Billing Service |
First, this
resource provides advantages and disadvantages for using a billing service
instead of doing billing internally. Secondly, this resource helps you
determine what specific services you should request from prospective billing
companies. Thirdly, we provide a guide to evaluating prospective billing
companies.
Price:
$200 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 9.
What You should Know about Independent Practice Associations (IPAs) |
Hospital
purchases of physicians' practices and Physician Practice Management companies
have come and are mostly gone. Independent Practice Associations have
been around a long time. Many are good. Some are bad. Learn how to match
practice goals with IPA strategies and how to assess IPAs before you join.
Price:
$300 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 10.
What You Should Know before Hiring an Associate (Physician or Physician
Extender), or Bring in a New Partner |
This document
covers the strategy that a practice should develop before hiring an associate
and includes a checklist of issues that the practice should have planned
and resolved before even starting the recruiting process.
This process
will help the practice select a new physician that is the best fit in
the practice, properly plan for the physician's arrival, and smooth the
physician's integration into the practice.
This information
focuses on physician associates but applies to other revenue-generating
practitioners such as nurse practitioners and physician's assistants.
Price:
$300 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 11.
What You Should Know Before Joining a Practice |
This document
will help a physician, nurse practitioner or physician's assistant develop
a list of requirements and use that list to assess prospective practices
to determine if and how they meet the practitioner's needs.
Price:
$200 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 12.
Merger Issues |
Neglecting
one or more important issues planning and executing a merger can lead
to major expenses, delays, and even failure of the new entity. This resource
provides a checklist of issues to be managed and recommendations regarding
how to handle each issue.
Price:
$200 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 13.
Office Design |
Space is
expensive. This resource provides many ideas relating to use of space
unique to medical practices from cabinetry, patient flow, waiting room
appointments, and many more. There is an emphasis on physician and staff
efficiency and well as aesthetics.
Price:
$200 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 14.
Office Design Checklist |
Moving your
office? Designing a new office? Remodeling your office? The purpose of
this list is to help you review you practice needs, establish a requirements
list, and then to provide the requirements list to others (such as the
architect, real estate agent, interior decorator, and the practice's business
consultant for financial projections, planning and implementation.
The list
contains almost every conceivable item of medical, business, and office
equipment that might be needed. By reviewing the list and crossing out
what is not needed, nothing is inadvertently forgotten. The edited list
contains your required items.
Price:
$300 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 15.
Office Lease Checklist |
A list of
issues that should be settled in a medical office lease.
Price:
$50 File format:
Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 16.
Practice Evaluation |
This is a
list of 110 practice activities broken down in minute detail. Management
Design consultants have used this list with clients for many years as
a brainstorming tool. We have the whole staff go through the list and
generate ideas for making improvements.
This activity
can be done at a staff meeting or in small groups. Using this list as
a guide, the staff and physicians will surface a list of problems and
potential improvements. Often, physicians and managers have no awareness
of many of the issues this tool surfaces.
Price:
$200 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 17.
Associate Employment Contracts |
Checklist
- A list of issues that should be included in an employment contract for
physicians and physician extenders.
Price:
$200 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 18.
Partnership Agreements |
A list of
issues that should be included in partnership agreements and recommendations
regarding how to handle each issue.
Price:
$200File format:
Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 19.
Selling Your Practice at Retirement |
How to develop
and execute a strategy to sell your practice, getting the most value and
providing the most value to the buyer.
Price:
$500 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 20.
Selling Your Share of a Group Practice at Retirement |
How to develop
and execute a strategy to sell your share of the practice, getting the
most value, providing the most value to the buyer, and helping your practicing
partners be successful.
Price:
$500 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 21.
Compensation Plan for Partners |
Ninety-Five
percent of potential conflicts between partners can be avoided with a
good, fair compensation plan. This resource provides concepts for developing
a compensation strategy, guidelines for developing a Compensation Plan
(including how to build in flexibility for the future), and a checklist
of issues to be included in the Plan.
Price:
$400 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 22.
Patient Brochures |
What should
be in a practice brochure? How should a practice use the brochure other
than putting it on the reception counter? This resource helps practices
decide the content of their practice brochure by first considering the
goals for a brochure and includes multiple uses of the brochure.
Price:
$100 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 23.
Patient Surveys |
The content
of a patient survey is based on the survey goals. This resource contains
help in developing survey goals, content and distribution for the most
effective surveys.
Price:
$200 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 24.
Referring Practice Surveys |
Why survey
referring practices? Because they refer patients and you want them to
refer more.
The content
of a practice survey is based on the survey goals. This resource contains
help in developing survey goals, content, distribution and follow-up techniques
for the most effective surveys.
Price:
$200 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 25.
Marketing a Traditional Medical Practice |
We need to
market practices again! This resource helps a practice develop a strategy
for marketing and provides concepts and detailed ideas for marketing the
practice to the best patients.
Price:
$400 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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| 26.
Marketing Elective Procedures |
Marketing
those procedures that are not generally covered by medical insurance is
very different from other practice strategies. Learn what is the same
and different about marketing elective procedures. Learn the specific
techniques to market elective procedures.
Price:
$300 File
format: Microsoft Word 97, PDF
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