Practice Management

Here are some helpful hints for launching your physician mentor-mentee relationship.

"Be sure you are prescribing and dispensing the most clinically and cost-effective alternatives for your patients, and check that your information systems (electronic health records) are configured to display formulary information as you prescribe," advises Robert A. Dowling, MD.

“We cannot give if our cup is empty,” says Diana Londoño, MD.

Here are seven ways texting can improve healthcare revenue and decrease costs.

“I thought identity theft was simple. You fix this 1 little thing. Today, what physicians and health care professionals need to be on the lookout for is [that] it's much different,” says Mark A. Moyad, MD, MPH, on the latest Speaking of Urology podcast episode.

Although a hospital or health system may experience a revenue gain, the profits frequently do not trickle down to the physicians from the acquired practice.

MIU seizes innovation opportunities presented by dynamic national urology platform caring for nearly one-half million patients.

“Physicians should take better care of their own personal needs [and] create some boundaries…for a more balanced life,” says William Lynes, MD.

Check for surgical approach and bundling edits when choosing a code.

“Take care of yourself, so we can take care of other people,” says Diana Londoño, MD.

In a recent interview, Mark A. Moyad, MD, MPH, discusses his personal experience with identity theft and why health care professionals should pay more attention to this topic.

In a recent interview, recipient of the Society of Women in Urology’s 2021 Outstanding Resident Award, Efe Chantal Ghanney Simons, MD, discusses the improvements that are needed for women in urology

Be sure to check and refresh your practice’s policies for record requests.

Loan repayment assistance programs and refinancing are options.

"I don't think we're doing enough. Absolutely not. Otherwise, we'd be in a different situation," says Diana Londoño, MD.

"Our hospital doesn’t have a [COVID-19 vaccination] mandate. A mandate would cost us a handful of nurses," says 1 urologist.

"This is still really a male-dominated field; however, the patient population is well mixed. There's men and women that are patients, and a lot of female patients are requesting female urologists," said Jennifer Miles-Thomas, MD.

“Thirteen percent of all doctors have suicidal ideation, and more than [400 physicians per year] will complete suicide. That is a tragedy of medicine,” says Diana Londoño, MD.

Urology as a specialty will see a 3.71% decrease in overall payments.

Beneficiaries are encouraged to choose an online doctor who acts as their first point of contact for most primary care.

Be sure to replenish your emergency fund if necessary.

"Without any real data [showing] that this improves anything, it just makes us too accessible," says one urologist.

Keeping up to date on EHR updates is 1 step you can take.

"As always, document well and use the modifiers when appropriate," advise Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.

"The short answer is that this will be paid once," according to Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.