Section 1: Setting Up a Practice

• Chapter 1: Getting Started
• Chapter 2: Evaluating Your Options for Surgical Practice
• Chapter 3: Why Surgeons Need to Understand Business

Section 2: Reimbursement and Billing Analysis

• Chapter 4: Understanding the Economy: Key Questions
• Chapter 5: Improving Reimbursement for Surgeons
• Chapter 6: Analyzing the Explanation of Benefits (EOBs)
• Chapter 7: Billing, Collection and Charge Tickets
• Chapter 8: Front Desk Collections
• Chapter 9: Scheduling Strategies and Cost of Cancellations
• Chapter 10: Optimizing Office Productivity

Section 3: Accounting and Financial Analysis

• Chapter 11: Financial Accounting for Surgeon Practice
• Chapter 12: Different Types of Financial Analysis to Assess Your Medical Practice
• Chapter 13: Financial Analysis and Payer Mix
• Chapter 14: Tips on Avoiding Embezzlement

Section 4: Surviving a Surgical Practice

• Chapter 15: Improving Reimbursement Ratios
• Chapter 16: Fee Schedule and Coding Analysis
• Chapter 17: Analysis of Surgeon Compensation
• Chapter 18: Overhead Analysis

Section 5: Managed Care and Legal Traps

• Chapter 19: Leverage in Managed Care Negotiations
• Chapter 20: Avoiding Traps in Surgeon Contracts
• Chapter 21: Decreasing the Incidence of Lawsuits

Section 6: Strategic Management

• Chapter 22: Stategic Management in a Surgical Practice

Section 7: Electronic Health Records

• Chapter 23: Advantages of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
• Chapter 24: Implementing an Electronic Health Record System: A Five-Year Plan

Section 8: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

• Chapter 25: An Overview of HIPAA
• Chapter 26: The Legal and Regulatory Environment of Health Care

Section 9: The Surgeon as Manager

• Chapter 27: The Challenge of Providing Quality Care in a Managed Care Environment
• Chapter 28: Surgeons as Leaders
• Chapter 29: Practice Consolidations

Section 10: The Practice of Health Care

• Chapter 30: The Historical Evolution of the Health Care Economy
• Chapter 31: Market the Surgeon to Your Non-Surgeon Colleagues
• Chapter 32: A Possible Score for Compensation in a Surgical Academic Practice

Section 11: The Surgical Practice

• Chapter 33: Fast Track Insurance Approval
• Chapter 34: Establishing a Patient Private Pay System
• Chapter 35: Knowing Your Surgical Practice

Section 12: Appendices

• Pre-Practice Assessment (Sample)
• Example of a Contract Agreement
• Example of CPT Codes
• Patient Information

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