NPBO Video Minute #5 – Increasing Patient Base

by Barbara C. Phillips, NP on August 29, 2010


Hi, everyone.  It’s Barbara Phillips with another NPBO Video Minute.  And to day my question comes from Deb in North Carolina.  And she says, “We’re a 3 year-old primary care practice in a very saturated area.”  Meaning there are a lot of physician practices around her, and she’s still only seeing 5 to 8 patients per day.  She wants to know what kind of advice we might have for her. [click to continue…]

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Time Saving Tips for your Practice

by Barbara C. Phillips, NP on August 22, 2010

Time Saving Tips for your PracticeAs any Nurse Practitioner will tell you, running a practice takes a lot of time. Here are a few tips that will allow you to be more efficient, saving you and your staff time and effort. As a bonus, some of them will even increase patient satisfaction.

Use templates for standard documentation. You can just substitute any changes. This is especially useful when you are doing documentation online.

Use tools such as Short Keys when you document that same thing over and over again. [click to continue…]

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NPBO Video Minute #4 – Facebook Pages

by Barbara C. Phillips, NP on August 1, 2010

NPBO Video Minute – Facebook Pages
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Disaster Planning for your Clinic

by Barbara C. Phillips, NP on July 26, 2010

Disaster Planning for your ClinicOne can hardly turn on the news today with hearing something about some natural disaster. In recent weeks it’s been about earthquakes, tornados, floods and wild fire. And of course, the Northern Hemisphere Hurricane Season is upon us.

Clinicians need to be prepared for disasters…not only at home, but in your business as well. Even if you think it will never happen to you, you need to be prepared for the “never gonna happen” event.

Making a disaster plan is really just a business plan for disasters. Here are a few things to address: [click to continue…]

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Are you in PECOS?

July 21, 2010

Are you a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant? Do you see Medicare patients? If so, you’ll want to make sure you are listed in PECOS – Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System. CMS continues to urge physicians and non-physician practitioners who are enrolled in Medicare but who have not updated their Medicare enrollment record since [...]

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NPBO Video Tip #3 – State Rules

July 19, 2010

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Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2010

July 18, 2010

Action alert from the American College of Nurse Practitioners: Virtual Capitol Hill Day to support HR4993/S2814, the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2010 which would allow Nurse Practitioners to order home health services under Medicare. On Thursday, July 22, 2010, nursing organizations across the broad range of nursing specialties will join together in [...]

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Outsourcing your Medical Billing

July 5, 2010

Early in the process of starting up your Nurse Practitioner practice, or even after you have been open for a while, you will be faced with what to do about billing. Your options are limited: you hire someone to come in, you do it yourself, or you outsource the billing. My choice, when I first [...]

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NPBO Announces National NP Survey

June 21, 2010

According to the Pearson Report, there are now almost 158,000 Nurse Practitioners in the United States, however, the actual number of NPs in their own business is unknown. The purpose of this project is to discover how many NPs own their own business and practices as well as how many are considering joining their ranks. [...]

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Home Health – Action Alert

June 17, 2010

This Action Alert comes from the American College of Nurse Practitioners: Support H.R.4993/S.2814, the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2010 Now is the time for you to put Policy into Action as an advocate to ensure positive policy change for NPs and their patients. H.R. 4993 / S. 2814, the Home Health Care [...]

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