Legal

When it comes to telemedicine services, the primary factor affecting reimbursements is legal policy.

Despite the benefits of telehealth to consumers, laws designed to protect state healthcare providers and patients often stand in the way.

The proposed new rule would make it harder for accountable care organizations to realize the financial benefits of participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program without also taking on more financial risk.

Because CMS can’t and Congress won’t get rid of hospital-based facility fees, doctors and patients must take action.

In the value-based payment era, the opportunity for greater financial rewards comes with greater risks.

While CMS says it aims to allow doctors more time with patients with less documentation, its proposed E/M changes simply don’t achieve that goal.

To truly improve patient care and reduce costs, primary care is the best buy in healthcare. Here’s why.

Repealing the Stark Law is a good first step, but more must be done to put doctors back in charge of patient care.

Congress is debating a plan that would have significant effects for a large majority of U.S. medical students.

Small practices score some wins, but work remains to be done under Medicare’s Quality Payment Program and Physician Fee Schedule.

Even small private practice groups are seeing HIPAA violations. Utilize these tips to avoid CMS fines and embarrassment.

Ten steps to widespread adoption of free markets offering competition on healthcare price and value.

Physicians and their pain patients will continue to suffer such inconveniences, insults and financial burdens, until the epidemic of opioid overdoses ends.

Don’t be fooled. When mergers occur, patients and physicians lose; executives at the top are the only ones who truly win.

It stands to reason that the best way to deal with unaffordable healthcare isn’t to take a second mortgage out on the house, but to make healthcare more affordable.

If an office manager in Colorado can steal more than $600,000 from her physician sister, then the same can happen at your office. Here’s how to avoid it.

Asking Americans to improve their health should not be too much to ask.

While you may be tempted to bring your shiny new smart speaker to your office, you would be well advised to keep it at home until virtual assistance becomes well acquainted with HIPAA.

Will government ‘solutions’ to the opioid crisis make it worse?

When a security breach occurs, reporting it is essential. But what happens when that breach occurs within your business partner’s system rather than your own?

Physician-owned hospitals have strengths that are especially relevant during an age of value-based care and comparison healthcare shopping

Before joining a virtual group to report quality metrics, make sure to pick the right partners

Earlier this month, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department unveiled "American Patients First," President Trump's blueprint to lower drug prices and reduce out-of-pocket costs for patients. Read more.

You truly have to walk a mile in a patient’s shoes to find out the true barriers to improving their well-being.

Partnership of six associations aims to give private practices a voice in changing healthcare environment.

Experts say rather than a simple rebranding of current programs, CMS is refocusing on the true purpose of EHR use by hospitals and physicians.

The Joint Commission’s “misconceptions” on pain just don’t make sense as many see it as the key to today’s opioid crisis.

Partnership seeks to better understand the factors affecting how physicians practice medicine

Input from our "Your Voice" letters to the editor. Here, a letter on the ACA.

To say it is not easy to be a physician today is a gross understatement.