Practice Finance

Being an active participant in your finances can help you capitalize on your strengths, repair your weaknesses, and seek opportunities.

Four changes that can improve the value of quality metrics. 

The Medicare Quality Payment Program, enacted under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), will affect participating physicians’ payment in 2021.

Technology can improve patient satisfaction, speed of treatment, and accuracy, which can positively impact patient outcomes.

An overwhelming number of new medical technologies promises to improve diagnostics and increase efficiencies in healthcare-and we’ll start to see these improvements soon.

Payer interference is increasing. Here's what to do about it. 

Letters from our readers 

How to deal with patients who pay you directly. 

Primary care physicians can join forces to provide these services. 

If it's not relevant, easy-and yes-delightful, the opportunity to engage with the patient is lost.

In addition to helping patients better manage chronic, difficult-to-treat conditions, mindfulness could help physicians manage job stress and burnout.

If physicians address these three pain points in a way that puts patients' needs first, they should be able to create the type of experiences patients will enjoy and tell the world about.

While there are many similarities between the two models, the differences turn direct care from a curiosity or sideshow to a potentially huge player in the American healthcare marketplace.

Manage patients with atrial fibrillation to boost payments under MIPS.

The solution to the lack of EHR interoperability 

For some doctors, it’s hard to say goodbye to a career they’ve loved and one which has formed a large part of their identity.

Letters from our readers 

There was a time when doctors looked forward to retiring after a successful career, looking to vacation, play golf and spend more time with their families. But these days, it seems more physicians are halting retirement plans.

Focus on three things for a successful patient interview during a visit: what the doctor thinks the problem is, what the patient thinks the problem is, and each of their goals.

The industry-wide transition to value-based care was never going to be quick or easy. But both payers and providers may be better equipped for success than they think.

Hackers are increasingly using targeted attacks that resemble legitimate electronic communications.

Next generation medical wearables are facilitating the shift to a value-based care system, moving the point of care to the patient’s home while allowing doctors to monitor the patient’s condition through continuous, real-time data.

This year could prove to be a challenging year for physicians who aren’t attuned to the latest industry trends in reimbursement. 

Physicians should weigh the pros and cons of participating in accountable care organizations.

One medical group’s path to freedom lights the way for others.

Many reimbursement-dependent healthcare companies are struggling under the weight of reimbursement and cost containment pressures across wide areas of the healthcare marketplace.

By taking on a number of care delivery tasks, nurse practitioners and physician assistants can help reduce physician burnout.

A look at the competition for the future of primary care 

Experts analyze a proposed Medicare change that could impact the way physicians prescribe pharmaceuticals.

The free market would provide abundant care.