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Keeping up with Dr. Google is exhausting.

Exchanging information is vital for quality patient care in an era of technology-based medicine, but progress is lagging.

The troubling reality is that review sites like Yelp and Healthgrades often attract patients who are more likely to air grievances, rather than praise. In other words, it’s a near certainty that every physician and medical practice will encounter a fair share of negative patient reviews.

MACRA, with all of its distractions and fool’s errands, not only interferes with the way we practice, but threatens our compensation if we don’t get with the program.

The Medical Economics Physicians Report published earlier this year took an exclusive look at the financial state of primary care practices in the United States, including asking physicians if they received a secondary income outside their practice or employer. But how does a physician, with a full-time practice, for example, become an expert witness, staff extra shifts in urgent care or work in telemedicine?

. Physicans are more likely to commit suicide than a member of the general population and 73% of physicians would not recommend the profession to their children, according to a recent report.

Finding the right match is critical, so be sure to find the vendor that can offer something that complements your current practice operations.

Post-implementation management strategies can ease the adjustment to a new system.

In planning for worst-case scenarios, don’t leave your family unprepared.

It’s well-established that older adults want to live in their own homes in the community.

Fewer doctors will need to report quality data to the government next year, and the requirements for those who do report will be more flexible under the final version of the rule implementing Medicare payment reform.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) October 14. Here’s what physicians need to know.

Regardless of whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump emerge victorious on Election Day, Republicans will continue their quest to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Thinking of stepping into the political arena? Irene Aguilar, M.D., Mike Ritze, D.O., MFSA, and Edward J. Canfield, D.O. give their top 15 tips for physicians considering a run for office...

Practices that scrutinize vaccine costs and plan ahead may not make much off of vaccinations, but could cut some of their losses.

The CDC reaffirms its decision to pull the intranasal vaccine, but allow vaccination in egg-allergic individuals.

While the closest we got to healthcare during the campaign was the fate of the Affordable Care Act-and perhaps your own personal health-physicians (nearly one million strong at last count) are facing a number of serious issues as you prepare to take the oath and move into the White House.

Prescribing decisions, physician burnout, tort reform and PQRS are among the hot topics of this edition of Your Voice.

Healthcare in the United States is truly at a crossroads with practice overhead costs rising, physician compensation falling and manyindependent practices pondering their futures amid multiplying mandates.

Physician collaboration is difficult for small practices under today’s payment models, but its importance is growing.

Odds are your current adviser is doing good work, but are they doing the best work for you?

Security risk assessments are difficult, but necessary.

The last pages of your new employment contract contain a number of provisions, typically described as“boilerplate,”that no one discusses. Here’s what that fine print covers.

A payment model experiment could make house calls an opportunity again for primary care physicians .

Q: We are a private practice that has several physicians who follow their patients in the hospital. There are times that the patient is in observation, and they are called to help decide whether to admit them or not. Should our physicians bill initial and subsequent observation codes for these visits?

octors groups are applauding newly-approved national legislation to fight opioid abuse while calling for more funds to implement many of the bill’s programs. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (CARA) passed both houses of Congress in July after Democrats backed off their demands that higher levels of funding be included in the bill.

Treating patients remotely requires the same diligence as face-to-face encounters, experts say.

This is normal...right?

Physicians still complacent about their HIPAA compliance programs could soon be subjected to the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) latest Phase 2 HIPAA Desk Audit Program, which began in mid-July.

It’s come to this: healthcare entities have so successfully bamboozled American consumers with their wacky bills and lack of pricing transparency, compounded with robbing middle-class Paul to pay uninsured Peter, that a chirpy contest for entrepreneurs-yes, a call for people to start an entire business to decode medical bills-is the best chance the American people have.