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Given the market's volatility in recent years, you have no choice but to become active if you want to be a successful investor.

Leaders of physician organizations told Congress to fix the flawed Medicare payment formula over the next five years and offer rate stabilization for doctors while a solution is designed.

Coordinated primary care should be at the center of any Medicaid reform, ACP says.

Understand whether claims will be denied if you use the GZ modifier.

Letters discuss geriatric medicine, rural family physicians, honesty, and bedside manner.

Your Medicare data billing will be online for all to see if a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate becomes law.

Discover appropriate way to handle moving expenses.

How to improve quality of service outcomes.

Consider the risks if you choose to drop a disability policy.

A majority of physicians believe more doctors will choose employment over independent practice in the next two to three years.

Physicians play a critical role in national and state economies, according to one expert.

Have you decided to practice medicine as an employee rather than a business owner?

The author promotes change to the current means of practicing medicine.

The author says he's been a self-proclaimed fan of The Who for decades.

Remember this name--Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM--because you?re going to be seeing and hearing it a lot. He is the new person leading the federal government?s efforts to encourage the adoption of health information technology and health information exchange in the practices of you and your peers as well as by other health system entities.

Are you part of the 80% of ambulatory providers who have purchased an electronic health record and are confident they will qualify for meaningful use this year? Take a closer look to be sure.

Need help adopting electronic health records and achieving meaningful use? You can look to the 3,000 people who will be the first graduates of the Community College Consortia to Educate Health Information Technology Professionals by the end of the summer. More than 2,200 of these graduates are expected to complete their training in April.

Collaboration and information-sharing between you and your fellow health professionals have the greatest near-term potential for facilitating large-scale health sector innovation, according to findings from a global health leader survey on national health sector innovation.

When you're on Facebook or Twitter or using other social media, remember to be honest, respect privacy, and uphold the reputation of the medical profession.

Just in time to help you meet Medicare's June 30 deadline for starting to e-prescribe or face a 1% reduction in your 2012 payments, a newly updated guide to eprescribing is available with a plethora of useful information.

A bill introduced recently by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va, would require physicians and other healthcare providers seeking to obtain or renew a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration registration number to complete CME related to responsible opioid prescribing practices.

If one of your patients is treated in a hospital emergency department (ED), chances are you engage in very little communication or coordination of care with the doctors who provided the care. So says a new study conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) for the nonprofit National Institute for Health Care Reform (NIHCR).

Since passage of the Affordable Care Act last year, you've probably been curious to find out what shape accountable care organizations (ACOs) will take and how they will affect your practice. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) answered some of those questions recently, and raised more.

If your billing systems are not compliant with new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards by January 1, 2012, you will not get paid by Medicare. Even if you are compliant, you may still not get paid.

Appeals of denied insurance claims from you or your patients ?frequently? are successful, according to a government review.

You and many of your fellow physicians find many federal regulations to be burdensome, inconsistent and unnecessary. At least that?s what you told the American Medical Association (AMA) in a recent survey on the most onerous rules.

If a medical practice's staff is successful in the pursuit of happiness, does it really mean that practice will have happy patients as well? Experts disagree.

Consider your practice in terms of the basic economics of supply and demand.

When it comes to physician recruiting, the dance between a potential employer and employee can be a complex one.

Very few practices predict an ability to meet all 15 core criteria for eligibility to receive incentive payments through CMS.