Welcome to the Oakstone Medical Publishing Audio Conference Center – your one stop resource for practice-management information.

Our 60-120 minute audio conferences provide you with ideas, advice, support, and access to resources that can help you transform your practice, enhance your earnings, and provide a higher level of care to your patients through more effective practice management. Hear from world-renowned speakers and consultants – the best of the best. Individual consultations with these speakers would cost thousands of dollars. Now you can benefit from their advice and experience for a mere fraction of that amount.

Conferences are available live to allow for fully interactive Q&A sessions, or on convenient audio CD. Each comes complete with handouts and documentation from each speaker, as well as each speaker’s contact information should you be interested in pursuing additional information or consulting.

Upcoming Live Audio Conferences:

May 8 , 2008

7 Steps to Improve Patient Satisfaction and Enhance
Your Practice's Long-Term Growth

Happier patients make for a stronger, more successful practice. Happier patients improve both staff and physician satisfaction, keep your business growing and produce more word-of-mouth referrals. In addition, with emerging Pay 4 Performance initiatives, the focus is on patient satisfaction. What more can you do to meet your patient’s expectations… to keep them smiling and coming back?

Conferences Available on Digitally Mastered Audio CD:

Physician Compensation Review

Learn everything you need to know about defining your real value to your medical practice, and implement a compensation plan that aligns incentives, addresses tax and productivity issues, and rewards you and your partners fairly for the work you do!

5 Surefire Strategies to Boost Your Practice's Collection Performance!

Collections — it is one of the most crucial and maddening aspects of every physician practice. What would it mean to your practice to be paid in a timely manner and collect what you are owed for the services you have provided?

Practice Expansion - Grow Your Income by Adding In-Office Imaging!

If you could dramatically boost your income, treat your patients more comprehensively, and provide greater financial stability for your practice, wouldn’t you at least look into it? A growing number of physicians are doing just that by incorporating high-margin imaging services into their traditional office practices. Here’s your chance to find out if you can make this transition, too.

Medical Practice Growth Strategies: Adding Medical Spa Cash Services and Boosting Your Bottom Line!

Adding ancillary services, such as laser hair removal, chemical peels, Botox injections and other self-pay medical spa procedures has helped a growing number of specialty and primary care practices dramatically boost revenues and their bottom line – while reducing dependence on insurance reimbursement – and it can be your ticket to putting some rocket fuel into your practice and igniting your personal income too! Register today for our live audio conference.

Valuation of Your Medical Practice: Find Out What Your Practice is Worth

How important is it to know the value of your medical practice? It is imperative in advance, for issues like life and disability insurance! And you don't want to add to the stress and emotional injury of unexpected litigation, marital divorce, or ownership breakup - times when you MUST determine practice value - to begin the process.

But just getting started often makes most doctors uneasy... How long will it take to go through a valuation process? What approach should be used to best determine the worth of the practice...asset, market, income...or all three? Does it matter if you are a buyer versus a seller?

Get all these answers, as well as what you need to look for when hiring an appraiser. This is your chance to thoroughly familiarize yourself with the valuation process!

Breakthrough Wealth Protection Planning for Physicians - Tax Reduction and Investment Strategies to Help You Keep More of What You Earn

If you are like most physicians, tax season is filled with dread and anxiety that ends with a sense of powerlessness and frustration as you hand over enormous portions of your hard-earned income to the IRS. Perhaps you have an uneasy suspicion that your current financial advisor or accountant is not as up-to-date, diligent, and effective as he or she should be to protect your assets. Where should you focus your limited time when it comes to your financial wealth protection and planning?

Create a High-Energy, High-Quality Medical Office Team

Most doctors don’t have the staff management expertise – or sometimes the energy – to turn a dysfunctional staff situation around; but inaction just enables poor performance and leads to further imbalance and even more dissatisfaction – yours included. There is a solution – and it you needn’t go any further to find it: You can start RIGHT NOW to end staff management headaches, develop your “dream team” and realize the incredible benefits of higher productivity and less turnover in your practice.

Open-Access Scheduling Audio Conference

The benefits of open-access are well-documented and dramatic. When you successfully adopt this efficient scheduling methodology – and begin balancing supply and demand on a daily basis – you'll see a huge reduction in wait times, a less crowded waiting room, more satisfied patients, an increase in practice income – and even better clinical outcomes. But where do you start? How do you turn that jam-packed, overloaded, booked-up schedule into an “open” schedule?

Become a Cash-Only Practice and Say Good-Bye Forever to Insurance Company Hassles

Do you ever find yourself frustrated with the hassles and limited reimbursements associated with managed care plans, insurance companies, and government programs? Have you ever imagined life without insurance companies? Well guess what? You CAN have a successful practice without the billing nightmares, payment delays, administrative hassle poor reimbursements and expense that today’s insurance companies have forced upon you.

Turn Your Ideas into Dollars: Patenting, Funding, Licensing, and Commercializing Your Intellectual Property

There are literally thousands of examples of physicians who, seeing a way to improve a technique or solve a problem, patented their idea and went on to license it or even launch a company around it, and in the process both contributed to medical science and created a lucrative new income stream – even a fortune – for themselves. The one thing all of these successful physician inventors have in common is this: they ACTED on their idea and overcame every barrier they faced in the commercialization process.

Great Marketing Tactics for Growth-Minded Physician Practices

Here’s your opportunity – for just $197 and 90 minutes of your time – to consult with two nationally renowned practice marketing experts, who’ll reveal their best, most effective tactics and ideas so you can apply them in your practice. Your investment will pay for itself dozens of times over in the form of increased referrals, more well-insured patients, higher growth and profit, and the assurance that your practice is positioned for the future.

Managed Care Contracting for Physicians

If you're like most physicians, the contracts you sign with PPOs, HMOs, and other third-party payers are viewed as a necessary evil. You have to ensure a healthy flow of patients, but the red tape, huge discounts, coverage rules, and other heavy-handed requirements can make you wonder if the contracts are worth the time, effort and HASSLE they invariably create.

But most doctors and practice managers don't realize that, by improving their own negotiating savvy, their knowledge of key leverage points, and their willingness to challenge insurers on contract terms, the hassle factor can be substantially reduced and your income – and profits – from contracted care can be increased. Most physicians make one of two choices: refuse a contract because its terms are unfavorable (and lose the patients that come with it), or accept a contract "as is" and hope they don't live to regret it.

There is another option – to fight for the best terms you can, negotiate effectively, maximize your leverage, and sign contracts that you know you can live with!

Practice Expansion for Primary Care Physicians

In this practical, how-to session – led by John L. Pfenninger, MD, one of the country's leading family physicians and a recognized guru on building primary care practices through procedures – you'll come away with the nitty-gritty guidance and tactics you need to begin offering in-office procedures.

Breast Cancer Screening: Incorporating the Latest MRI and CAD Evidence into Your Daily Practice

This audio event has been scheduled based on urgent demand among radiologists and OB/GYNs for clinical guidance in the wake of these new reports and guidelines and is presented by two of the country's leading breast imaging experts – G.W. Eklund, MD, FACR, and Constance D. Lehman, MD, PhD.

Risk-Based E&M Coding: Spend LESS time document and make MORE money

The Risk Based Coding™ System was created by M. Tray Dunaway, MD, FACS, a practicing, in the trenches, every-other-night-on-call general surgeon to solve the E&M coding conundrum, and in this dynamic presentation he will share his success – and show you how to implement the system so you can IMMEDIATELY begin getting more reimbursement dollars while slashing the time you spend documenting the care you provide.

Detect, Defuse and Protect: Preventing Workplace Violence in the Medical
and Dental Office

No one is immune to the epidemic of workplace violence – including medical and dental practices like yours. But you can take solid, practical steps to protect yourself, your office staff, and your patients.

Join us for this 90-minute, interactive, lively session with one of the country's foremost experts on workplace violence prevention, Don Grimme - featuring proven prevention techniques and illuminating case studies that will help you and your staff learn how to stem the rising tide of violence in the everyday workplace.

Enhancing Practice Productivity and Revenue With Physician Extenders

The typical office practice has been forced to increase patient loads and decrease the time spent on each visit. For many doctors, doing more just to stay even is an unpleasant fact of life. There is only so much of your time to go around, and actually growing your practice may seem like a ridiculous pipe dream. At the same time, jammed waiting rooms and overflowing appointment books bring with them dissatisfied patients, high stress for you and your staff, and little time to enjoy interests beyond the daily grind.

Boosting Physician Income with Ancillary Services and Other Revenue Sources

Start building your ancillary revenue stream NOW!

If you're fed up with shrinking reimbursements and want to take a practical step toward putting your practice on a new and exciting growth track, now is the time to act. You'll spend 90 minutes with a nationally regarded consultant, and you'll leave with actionable ideas for ancillary products and services, as well as a clear road map for turning those ideas into reality.

In this detailed, nuts-and-bolts session, you and your staff will come away with steps you can take right now to incorporate CDH realities into your marketing plans, improve billing practices for these new insurance products, and boost your overall reimbursement.

Informed Consent: Best Practices to Improve Patient Education,
Boost Compliance, and Keep You Out of Court

Studies show that the average compensatory award for mishandled informed consents is $5,000,000! Despite the huge risks, however, most doctors' offices are still using smudgy copies of one-size-fits-all consent documents that don't take into account each patient's specific condition and education needs. And worse than that, many physicians give very short shrift to patient and family education, including consent discussions, as they rush from one exam room to another trying to catch up with their jam-packed waiting room.

Here’s your opportunity to consult with a physician expert and a nationally respected malpractice attorney in this interactive, dynamic and practical presentation. They'll help you get started on strengthening your informed consent process, enhancing patient education, and implementing critical strategies to make sure you're well-protected from damaging lawsuits.

Radiology Coding: Key Strategies for Maximizing Reimbursement
and Ensuring Compliance

Do you have any idea how much money is slipping through your fingers due to inaccurate and incomplete coding? Be prepared for a shock: You and your office staff are likely losing thousands of dollars every week due to inadequate dictation and sub-optimal coding. At the same time, some common but improper coding practices can expose you to substantial compliance risks.

Your investment in this dynamic, practical, how-to session will be paid back many-fold in the form of increased reimbursement, as well as reduced compliance risk, through improved coding practices. The experts from CodeRyte will share with you and your staff the common money-sapping mistakes and risky oversights they see on a daily basis – and show you how to make adjustments to your coding practices that will get you the reimbursement dollars you deserve while maximizing your compliance. Through analyses of millions of dictated radiology reports, they'll reveal proven strategies you can implement immediately to bolster compliance, improve coding, and boost your practice revenue.

Becoming an Effective Physician Manager

Most doctors – no matter how brilliant in the clinic or the operating theater – have no clue when it comes to management of their practices, their staff, their time, and the efficiency of their offices. As a result, most physicians get bogged down in crammed schedules, staff morale and turnover problems, ineffective billing and collection, confusing contracts, incomplete records, and the unbearable stress of having too much to do, no time to fix the problems, and no idea how to make things better.

That's where management training and leadership skills come in. And that's just what you'll get when you join us for a 90-minute crash course that just may be the best investment you'll make all year. You'll get detailed guidance and practical, how-to advice from one of the country's leading practice management consultants – and you'll be well on your way to boosting your management prowess and tackling your toughest office and staff management challenges.

Transitioning to a Boutique Medicine Practice: End Insurance Headaches,
Grow Your Income, and Deliver the Kind of Care Your Patients Want

Join three nationally recognized experts as they take you step-by-step through the transition process and show you how to reduce your practice size while boosting your income, virtually eliminate insurance headaches and patient waiting time, reduce your stress levels and increase your personal time, and dramatically enhance both your own and your patients’ satisfaction levels.

Become a Physician Entrepreneur: Use Your Medical Know-How and Credibility to Launch a Lucrative Business

Hear from one of the country’s leading experts on physician entrepreneurship who has worked with dozens of physicians to help them identify their goals and create a practical strategy for achieving them. Plus, a leading health care attorney will address the practical legal, regulatory, tax, and compliance issues you’ll face along the way.

Implementing E-Visits in Your Practice: Expand Patient Access, Reduce Wait Times, Enhance Quality, and Boost Your Practice Income

We’ve lined up two national experts on E-visit implementation who will give you and your practice manager the information you need to get started, from the practical first steps and educating your patients about the online system to reimbursement, security issues, and legal considerations.

Implementing Group Visits in Your Practice: A Blueprint for Success

In this dynamic and practical audio event, you’ll be consulting with Dr. Edward Noffsinger, the country’s leading group visit innovator and originator of two popular group visit models, the Drop-in Group Medical Appointment (DIGMA) and the Physicals Shared Medical Appointment (SMA).

The group visit concept is rapidly gaining momentum across the country as both primary care and specialist physicians recognize its power to gain them efficiency and time, improve patient access, boost patient satisfaction, and enhance patient care while bringing in additional revenue for the practice!

Redesigning Specialty Physician Compensation: Keys to Physician Satisfaction
and Financial Success

When was the last time you took a really good look at your compensation system? Isn’t it about time to at least consider some changes that could dramatically improve your income and your practice’s overall performance? You owe it to yourself to – and your practice – to make sure your payment and incentive systems are helping to push your organization forward while also compensating you fairly for your time, your effort, and your results.

Join Jennifer K. Gingrass for this informative live event and learn the latest redesign strategies from a physician compensation expert, and to take a practical first step toward dramatically improving your compensation system.