In the latest email bulletin from the American College of Surgeons:
....Practice Management Webcasts for 2008 and early 2009 include:
- July 9, 2008 - Negotiating Better Third-Party Contracts
- July 23, 2008 - Practice Valuations ... What's Your Practice Worth?
- Aug. 6, 2008 - Compensation Formulas of Successful Practices
- Aug. 20, 2008 - Effective Personnel Management
- Sep. 10, 2008 - Dealing with Difficult People
- Sep. 24, 2008 - Maximizing Patient Collections
- Oct. 1, 2008 - Scheduling Techniques for Improved Productivity
- Oct. 22, 2008 - ICD-9 Coding & ICD-9 Changes for 2009
- Nov. 5, 2008 - E & M Coding ... Beyond the Basics
- Nov. 19, 2008 - CPT Coding & 2009 Updates
- Dec. 3, 2008 - Bottom-Line Budgeting for 2009
- Dec. 17, 2008 - Billing Compliance: Avoiding Fraud and Abuse
- Jan. 14, 2009 - Creating a 2008 Management Work Plan
- Jan. 28, 2009 - Analyzing the Financial Health of Your Practice
- Feb. 11, 2009 - Medicare Update for 2009
- Feb. 25, 2009 - Advanced CPT Coding
- Mar. 11, 2009 - E & M Coding ... From An Auditor's Perspective
- Mar. 25, 2009 - ICD-9 Diagnosis Coding for Doctors & Staff
- Apr. 8, 2009 - Appealing Third-Party Claims
- Apr. 22, 2009 - Effective Governance and Management of Your Practice
- May 6, 2009 - Benchmarking Practice Productivity and Profitability
Anyone wonder why I quit?
Yeah, I acknowledge that you can't avoid this stuff, and it's better to be smart about it. But trust me: this is but a teensy sampling of that with which we are regaled, pretty much daily. All I ever wanted to do was take care of patients. I had this silly idea that if I did a good job of it, the rest would take care of itself.
