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Your appointment schedule is full, your staff file and track claims timely and bill patients monthly, and day-to-day operations are running smoothly. Everything is going great … or is it?

How Can I Prevent Embezzlement in My Practice? - 11/11/2025

Medical practices are largely cash businesses and have the highest embezzlement rate of any service industry. Every medical practice, regardless of size, specialty or location, is a potential victim of employee theft and embezzlement.

What Is the Right Staffing Level for Your Practice? - 11/10/2025

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Job Screening Checklist - 11/10/2025

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Did That Employee Quit, or Did You Fire Her? - 11/10/2025

The question of whether an employee quit or was fired is very important if the ex-employee files for unemployment benefits. It determines who has the burden of proof in the case. These tips from the Texas Workforce Commission can help you keep the onus of proof off you.

What’s Your Policy for Unused Paid Time Off? - 11/10/2025

Do any state laws govern how to handle unused paid time off when an employee leaves our practice?

Do’s and Don’ts of Unemployment Insurance Claims and Appeals - 11/07/2025

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Follow These Five Tips When You Follow Up on Claims - 10/24/2025

Follow These Five Tips When You Follow Up on Claims

It Takes a Team to Produce a Good Claim - 09/16/2025

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Four Bill-Collecting Tips for New (or Any) Practices - 09/16/2025

Starting a practice can be daunting, and one challenge often overlooked is making sure you get paid. Although only a small number of patients will not pay you, or will pay slowly, they can hurt your bottom line. Writing off thousands of dollars in charges should not be an option.

Billing and Collections: A Process, Not a Task - 08/07/2025

Revenue cycle procedures begin with efficient appointment scheduling and end with payment for billed charges. By attending carefully to each step of the revenue cycle process, you can eliminate problems that may cause your practice to lose money.

Try These Budget-Friendly Ways to Motivate Your Staff - 08/05/2025

Employees value many things as much as — maybe even more than — the amount of money you pay them. Respect, recognition, and pride in what they do are basic but powerful motivators. Here are some no-cost, low-cost ways to help your staff bloom.

Top Three Reasons Embezzlement Occurs - 08/05/2025

Medical practices suffer from one of the highest embezzlement rates of all service industries.Several factors can contribute to embezzlement. The top three are opportunity, pressure, and rationalization.

Preventing Embezzlement - 08/05/2025

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PAs and APRNs: How Do These Midlevels Differ? - 08/05/2025

Physicians interested in hiring a midlevel practitioner for their practice sometimes wonder whether they should hire a physician assistant or an advanced practice registered nurse. Here’s the basic difference between the two.

Interview Candidates the Smart Way - 08/05/2025

When interviewing candidates for your practice staff, it’s a good idea to work from prepared questions. Here’s why.

Eight Reasons Your New Employee Didn’t Work Out - 08/05/2025

Hiring the right employee isn’t an easy job, nor a particularly fun one. You don’t want to do it all over again in a couple of months because your recent new hire didn’t work out. If that happened to you, here are some things you may have done wrong.

Data Provides Benchmark for Staff Salary Levels - 08/05/2025

Data provides benchmark for staff salary levels

Job Descriptions: More Than Just for Hiring - 08/05/2025

Hiring a new employee? Start by writing a job description. Here’s what to include and how it can work for you beyond the hiring process.

What’s a Good Way to Measure Physician Productivity? - 07/29/2025

An effective way to measure physician productivity is in relative value units (RVUs). Monitoring physician productivity can be one element in tracking a practice’s financial health.

When It Rains (and Pours) … - 03/19/2025

According to news reports, nearly half of Texas was under flood watches or warnings at the beginning of June 2016. Does your practice have a policy for inclement weather and similar disaster or emergency conditions?

The Secret Handshake: TMA Experts Identify Medical Documentation Missteps - 05/06/2024

TMA experts help identify medical documentation missteps that may lead to payment and prior authorization denials.

Staff Recruitment - 01/22/2024

Personalized recruiting of qualified staff for front office, billing, clinical, and management positions. We provide assistance with job descriptions, résumé review and evaluation, reference and background checks, on-site interviews and training.

Revenue Cycle Assessment Training - 01/22/2024

A TMA consultant will provide training to assist the practice in developing policies and procedures for effective billing and collections processes.

On-site Training - 01/22/2024

This service for physicians and staff is customized for your practice’s specific needs. Discover what these hands-on training sessions cover.