How to Review a Vendor BAA Before You Sign
The BAA is a contract, not a checkbox Most practice owners sign Business Associate Agreements the same way they accept terms of service: scroll, initial, done. I underst
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Matthew Koucky
EMR Contract Due Diligence for Clinic Operators
Every practice manager I know has at least one EMR horror story. The vendor demoed beautifully, the sales rep answered every question with confidence, and eighteen months
True Cost of EMR Migration: Hidden Budget Items
The invoice is the smallest number you'll see all year When a practice owner tells me they're budgeting $40,000 for an EMR migration, I ask what number they'
AI Agents for Prior Authorization: A Practical Guide
Prior authorization is the tax your clinical staff pay for every insurer that decided a fax machine and a 40-minute hold queue counted as utilization management. In most
Automating Refills in Compounding Practices
Refills are the tax you pay for having a compounding program. Every GLP-1 patient, every LDN protocol, every hormone regimen: they all come back around, and each cycle de
What Actually Triggers a HIPAA Audit: OCR Guide
What Actually Triggers a HIPAA Audit: A Practice Operator's Guide to the OCR Complaint Process Most practice owners I talk to have a vague fear of "getting audi
Concierge Practice Scheduling That Actually Works
Most concierge practices inherit their scheduling logic from the primary care world they left behind. Fifteen-minute slots, thirty-minute slots, maybe a sixty for a new p
EMR Migration Timeline: What Clinics Actually Need
Every EMR vendor pitch includes a migration timeline slide. It usually says something like "8-12 weeks from kickoff to go-live." In practice, that number is eit
Where Concierge Visits Lose Time (And How to Get It Back)
If you run a concierge practice, you already know the pitch: fewer patients, more time per patient, better outcomes. What the pitch leaves out is how much of that "m