Health Care Consolidation Part 6: What should an independent physician do?
As the health care market consolidates, what should an independent physician do?
Health Care Consolidation Part 5: Does consolidation result in better pay and less burden for physicians?
Does consolidation in health care result in better pay or less administrative burden for physicians?
Health Care Consolidation Part 4: The impact on care access and continuity
What impact has health care consolidation had on patient access to care and the continuity of care?
Health Care Consolidation Part 3: Will corporations and private equity continue to buy medical practices?
Major retailers tried to remake health care, but most have already abandoned their attempts. Will these setbacks deter other corporations and private equity firms from continuing to consolidate health care?
Health Care Consolidation Part 2: Can independent physicians survive?
Can independent physicians survive in a market where consolidation is taking place all around them?
Health Care Consolidation Part 1: Is it living up to its promises?
Is consolidation in health care living up to the promises to doctors and patients?
Congressional perspectives: A message for primary care
Congress needs physician expertise.
Congressional perspectives: Repealing Obamacare?
Repealing won’t happen, but reforms could.
Congressional perspectives: Changes to Medicare Advantage
Some health care policies and programs are antiquated.
Congressional perspectives: Prior authorizations
Lawmakers understand the PA problems.
Congressional perspectives: Cybersecurity in health care
A big target causes widespread problems.
Congressional perspectives: Practice of pharmacy
How do physicians and pharmacists compete?
How to increase the power of your individual and group disability programs
An expert discussion on what physicians need to know about individual and group disability plans.
Unlocking financial independence: Strategies to help doctors retire on their own terms
Hear from doctors and financial professionals as we unlock the pathways to optimizing your retirement savings.
Find the hidden gems in your Medicare billing: Under-used codes that can generate revenue
Are you billing these often-missed new codes, or leaving money on the table?
Congressional perspectives: Consolidation in health care
What do physicians and pharmacists have in common?
Congressional perspectives: Evolution of PBMs
How pharmacy benefit managers have grown in a bad way.
Congressional perspectives: PBM reforms
How lawmakers can regulate PBMs.
Congressional perspectives: Rep. Carter on telehealth
Introducing legislation about telehealth.
Patient portal messages: The value of tapping medical assistants to manage workflow
A study found that using medical assistants to filter and triage patient portal messages was an effective time saver for physicians.
A new patient portal workflow: What challenges can practices expect?
A Philadelphia-area medical practice experimented with having medical assistants triage patient portal messages. What challenges did they experience with this new workflow?
Patient portal messages: Why there's a gender gap in physicians responding
Jennifer N. Lee, M.D. recently conducted a study on managing patient portal messages at her medical practice — and found something interesting about physician gender.
Can better patient portal management help improve physician burnout?
A new study tested a different way to handle patient portal message inflow at a medical practice.
Managing patient messages: How one practice experimented with a new workflow
Primary care physicians are often inundated with messages from patients. Is there a better way for practices to manage this patient communication to help improve practice workflows and free up physician time?
NIOSH and physician burnout: How long is long-term?
Workplace well-being in the long run.
NIOSH and physician burnout: Who takes the lead?
On leadership by doctors and others.
NIOSH and physician burnout: Creating partnerships
NIOSH joins with other organizations in a common cause.
NIOSH and physician burnout: possible congressional action?
Discussing the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Protection Act, part 2.
NIOSH and physician burnout: Identifying the problem
How federal researchers approach health care burnout.
NIOSH and physician burnout: Generating attention
Is health care burnout getting the attention it deserves?
