Foreword by David B. Nash, MD, MBA, FACP If you own, run, or have anything to do with a medical practice, you must read this book. Today the practice of medicine must be recognized as a business. No longer can the business of the practice be based on the intuition of the physician or office manager. This exciting book from Greenbranch Publishing promises a new way for physicians and administrators to look at the medical practice. Owen Dahl decodes business theories and applies them to today's medical practice. Filled with winning techniques, Think Business! will teach you the following: -Financial fundamentals - how to keep tabs on the practice -Employees as assets: how to recruit and retain them -How to differentiate your practice from your competition -Setting the stage for pay-for-performance and quality of care -Why medical staff should care about satisfied patients and quality outcomes -Motivate employees to build great teams; it's not only about the money! -Smart strategies to focus your practice as a business Packed with plenty of take-home value, you can count on Owen Dahl to provide you with the language, the players, and the management techniques to ensure success in your practice. It is time to bring solid business principles to the medical practice! And, running a profitable medical practice takes more than your staff's strong clinical skills. Today's practice is complex -- declining reimbursement per patient or per procedure, complexity in managing the patient process, technology needs, decision-making processes to ensure optimal use of resources, outcomes management...and don't forget the nuances of employee management!

Think Business! Medical Practice Quality, Efficiency, Profits

Medical Books

Owen Dahl

FACHE

CHBC

Administration & Medicine Economics

Greenbranch Publishing

Boost profitability without cutting costs or increasing revenues Medical practices face serious financial challenges. &gt;Staff and costs are already cut to the bone. Payers fight physicians for every penny of reimbursement. Revenues aren t likely to soar anytime soon. So what can be done to increase profitability? This perfectly-timed book provides good answers and ready-to-use tools by Six Sigma Black Belt Frank Cohen and Practice Management expert Owen Dahl in Mastering Lean Six Sigma for the Medical Practice: Improving Profitability by Improving Processes. 
Step by step, this book explains how to use Lean Six Sigma decision-making processes, team-building principles and efficiency-boosting tools to do more without increasing costs. That means more of the revenue that comes in goes right to the bottom line. Plus, you ll learn the secrets of using data analysis to hold payers feet to the fire to optimize revenue. Six Sigma practices have revolutionized other businesses. Now, by being ahead of your field in applying them to the medical business, you ll put your practice way ahead. In fact, don t be surprised if you find yourself at an upcoming conference presenting a case study about your own thriving practice. NOTEWORTHY FEATURES: Real skill-building for making decisions and using process-improvement teams even if you re in a solo practice Lean Six Sigma exclusively for medical practices you can apply improvement strategies directly to everything from managing litigation and payer behavior to gaining more control over office operations and clinical efficiency. A sharp focus on the business model giving practice profitability the level of attention that s previously been focused solely on quality of care. 
Table of Contents Chapter 1: What s In It For Me? Lean Six Sigma benefits for healthcare providers, administrators, frontline staff, attorneys, consultants and payers. Chapter 2: Process Improvement How to map processes to the revenue cycle to drive efficiency and profitability. Chapter 3: Team Building How process improvement (PI) teams differ from other teams and how to create and use them. Chapter 4: Project Management How to streamline, eliminate bottlenecks, and use data and metrics for making PI decisions. Chapter 5: TPI Toolbox 24 Lean Six Sigma tools tailored specifically for medical practices. Chapter 6: Deployment Using Lean Six Sigma tools to cut denials due to CCI edit policy by 50%, speed patient registration, complete entire patient visits in 60 minutes, and make other profit- boosting improvements. Chapter 7: What's Next? The vital role Lean Six Sigma plays in the future of health care and practice profitability.

Lean Six Sigma for the Medical Practice

Frank Cohen

Integrating Behavioral Health into the Medical Home: A Rapid Implementation Guide offers up- to-the-minute guidance on how to integrate behavioral health (BH) into primary care in a manner which is legal, profitable, clinically effective, time-efficient, and reflective of best practices. A one-of-a-kind practical resource not available anywhere else, the distinguished authors present the facts here to help you make rapid and accurate decisions while integrating for the first time or improving your current integrated BH program. The book is geared toward practice leaders or anyone responsible for launching and overseeing a BH service. Topics Include Why? Understand how healthcare delivery and population management must incorporate behavioral health, especially in the medical home Which service delivery model is the right fit for your organization? And how to roll-out a program system-wide Learn how to leverage integrated behavioral health services in the medical home to help you achieve the Triple Aim How to develop and organize your team and get buy-in from all stakeholders Personnel selection and training all staff to deliver team-based success How to shoot past business competitors who do not have these programs Sample business tools: policy samples; templates for business case analyses; surveys for your medical staff; sample pro formas, funding and program evaluation tools, and much more... Insider Tips: A step-by-step guide to achieve the ROI (Return on Investment) desired Clear Do's and Don'ts to improve financial and clinical outcomes Best Practices: Case Examples of outcomes and cost savings How to make these programs worth developing and sustaining... clinically and financially TABLE of CONTENTS SECTION I: GETTING STARTED Introduction Chapter 1: Why Integrate Behavioral Health? Chapter 2: Shared Interprofessional Skills: Language and Collaboration Optimize Operations Chapter 3: What Are Your Needs? Chapter 4: A Menu of Integrated Behavioral Health Options SECTION II: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, POLICY, AND OPERATIONS Chapter 5: Policy Chapter 6: Business Development Chapter 7: Calculating Value and Revenue Cycles Chapter 8: Measuring Your Program s Impact Chapter 9: Hiring Chapter 10: Training Chapter 11: Facilitating the Transition Process to Integrated Care SECTION III: CASE STUDIES, PROFILES, AND EXEMPLARS Chapter 12: System Initiatives IMPACT Colorado Access Aetna Cherokee Health Systems Intermountain Health Edmonton Southside Primary Care Network The Piedmont Health Group

Integrating Behavioral Health into the Medical Home: A Rapid Implementation Guide

Health, Fitness & Dieting

ABPP

Kent A. Corso

BCBA-D

Christopher L. Hunter

LSSMBB

Dr. Gene Rusty Kallenberg

Lesley Manson

PHD.

PsyD.

Psychology & Counseling

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