Medical Money Matters with Jill Arena
Who is this podcast for? It's for you if you: Lay awake at night wondering if your medical practice is doing well financially, or if you are concerned about your insurance contracts or your reimbursement, or if you worry about being embezzled. Do you want a big piece of new equipment, but are not sure it's a wise purchase, or do you shudder every time a financial question comes up? Join Jill Arena, CEO of Health e Practices and other healthcare industry experts as they demystify the business of outpatient medicine in this weekly podcast.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 147
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Episode 47: Understanding Your Scope - Why You Don't Care About $500
Today, we’re diving into a topic that often gets swept under the rug but holds immense significance—Understanding Your Scope and why, believe it or not, you shouldn't sweat it about tha…
Episode 46: Cost vs. Value – Understanding the Difference in Making Business Decisions Within a Medical Practice
This episode digs into a topic that's close to my heart and incredibly relevant for the financial well-being of your medical practice—understanding Cost vs. Value in Business Decisions.…
Episode 45: Where and How to Find Cost Savings in Your Practice - Reducing Expenses 201
Are your practice expenses out of control? Do you wonder where all the money went at the end of each month? Join me for this episode where I talk with Matthew McCreith, a Cost Reduction…
Episode 44: Clawing Back at Insurance Clawbacks
You’ve probably heard the saying, "Easy come, easy go," right? But in medical practices, when money goes, it's anything but easy. It's stressful, confusing, and can throw a wrench into …
Episode 43: Guarding Your Medical Practice Against Phishing Scams, Social Engineering, and Cybercrime
In a world where almost everything has moved online, cybersecurity is a topic that no one in healthcare can afford to ignore. Whether you're a solo practitioner or part of a large medic…
Episode 42: Navigating the Labyrinth of Professional References
Today we're talking about Professional References. How do you get them and how do you give them, especially in our current climate of legal concerns?
So, let's start with the basics: w…
Episode 41: Amplifying Voices in the Medical Clinic - A Spotlight on "Invisible Work"
Today we have a topic that doesn't just resonate with your wallet, but also with your heart and with your team’s morale.
The practice of medicine isn’t just about the physicians and cli…
Episode 40: Mitigating the Risk of Sexual Harassment in Your Practice
Today we’re diving into a serious and important topic, sexual harassment in the workplace within physician offices. We’ll be exploring the complex power dynamics involved, and focusing …
Episode 39: Appropriate Appreciation for Your Fabulous Team
Today, we're diving into a subject close to my heart: showing appropriate appreciation for your incredible staff members. They're the backbone of your practice, so how can you make them…
Episode 38: Delegating Like a Boss
Delegation is more than just a buzzword. It's a vital skill that allows you to work at the top of your license, utilizing your full skill set, while entrusting certain tasks to the leas…
Episode 37: What’s All This Hype About Strategic Planning?
As the old saw goes, “If you don’t know where you’re headed, any road will do.” In thinking about Strategic Planning, there are entire books written on the subject. In the spirit of giv…
Episode 36: Physician Compacts - Intentionality in Your Culture
We've talked in previous episodes about physician contracts, and have compared and contrasted them with physician compacts. At its core, a Physician Compact is a mutual agreement betwee…
Episode 35: Surviving and Thriving Through Physician Compensation System Changes
Physician compensation changes are:
a) A sticky wicket
b) The thing administrators lose their jobs over
c) More emotionally charged than any other practice topic
d) Best when planned and co…
Episode 34: What is Appropriate Oversight by Owners?
As an owner in your business, how much time and energy should you spend overseeing the operations? What constitutes too much oversight? What’s too little?
We see altogether too many gr…
Episode 33: Governance vs. Management – Utilizing a Decision Matrix
Since we don’t give physicians any business training as part of your education, we see many groups that have governance, leadership and management totally conflated. We see groups of ph…
Episode 32: When Your Team Performs Well, and When They Don’t – The Art of Coaching, Counseling, Disciplining, and Termination
In several of our past episodes, we’ve been talking about when an employee is no longer effective for your group. In most cases, most of our team IS effective, and they generally fall o…
Episode 31: Severance - Creating a Clean Departure
In a recent episode, we talked about when a leader is no longer effective for your group. As we said, it’s important to engineer a clean departure for them, and a severance package can …
Episode 30: Managing Business Risk with Malpractice, Cyber and EPLI Coverage - Insurance 101
Managing business risk is becoming a larger issue for medical practices every day. Risk of lawsuits and penalties or fines for being out of compliance is high, and with our society beco…
Episode 29: Exiting an Ineffective Leader
We’ve been talking about the powerful leadership dyad – what if yours isn’t working? What if your executive leader is ineffective? Or worse yet, berating staff or being inappropriate wi…
Episode 28: Physician Contracts - Codifying How We Work Together
Terminating a physician’s employment is not anything anyone wants to do, but if it becomes necessary to part ways, some well-constructed Employment Contracts and Partnership Agreements …