title: Staying ahead financially. Reimbursement tips for a changing environment.
abstract: Physicians' primary goal is to give good care to their patients. But like other managers in changing times, they face big challenges to achieving their goals. Major national stressors for all professionals today, experts report, are time and money. MSMS leaders, participating in strategic planning sessions this past summer and fall, agreed, ranking reimbursement/revenue problems as second on their list of concerns, right behind autonomy as physicians.
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authors.lastname: Kondek
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee; D003284:Contract Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D018588:Fee-for-Service Plans / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008824:Michigan; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000191:economics*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D012955:Societies, Medical