Bradley Schmidt

Democrats want to push ahead now. Republicans want to wait until a firm bipartisan agreement is in place. Both want financial reform legislation passed. Once they quit wrangling over details and approve it, this is what it will mean for you.

Today has been a tough in the world of healthcare quality metrics. Physicians suffering from a lack of patient accountability, hospitals are being judged unfairly by a biased metric and their own reputations, cats and dogs living together...mass hysteria!

Tax season is over and, mercifully, this will be the last tax-focused article for a while. In order to close things out in style, we've got TaxDebtHelp.com's Top 10 Humorous Tax Stories for your entertainment. Enjoy.

A UnitedHealth Group-YMCA diabetes partnership could signal the rise of collaborative, insurance company-led disease prevention and management programs.

Even with 3.5 million iPad apps sold in 6 days, the healthcare industry is not jumping on the iPad bandwagon just yet. But while we await that killer app, here are the best of the best for use in your practice right now.

Practices often have compliance plans in place that do not include strong audit practices, which is greatly self-defeating.

Physicians who are bearing the entire practice burden are a recipe for disaster, but they can lighten that load by hiring a physician extender.

If you’ve never considered clinical research appropriate for your portfolio of service offerings, or have, but decided it’s too daunting of a task, Alvin Wells lays out the steps necessary to integrate this personally and financially rewarding aspect of medicine into your practice.

The prevalence of specialty pharmacy networks is increasing and in the coming years will threaten the existence of the “buy-and-bill” model that currently guides many physician drug-purchasing habits. Will you be ready?