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With quality metrics becoming more common and the quantity of forms and data reporting increasing, experts say physicians need to take steps to keep their paperwork to manageable levels.

Primary care physicians say they find their practices increasingly beset by outside interference that gets in the way of effective patient treatment.

Value-based care and related metrics are one more thing physicians don’t need to deal with. Here are three possible solutions to make things easier.

The certification body for internists says it has learned from internist frustration and adapted to meet criticism while maintaining a rigorous evaluation of physicians.

Internists urge focus on non-medical factors to truly drive patient improvement, promote health equity.

One physician offers advice to peers to make value-based care work at private practices, and perhaps even see financial gains.

For every billing error, there’s a potentially easy solution.

Healthcare can learn to streamline billing from payment processing tools used in other industries.

There are numerous models for primary care delivery successfully saving money while also improving patient outcomes.

Here are five ways physicians can make clear that LBGTQIA patients will be treated with the same respect and high-quality care any other patients receive.

Financial incentives exist for physicians and psychiatrists to collaborate when caring for patients with behavioral health disorders.

ChangeMaker Ira Rubin, MD, and his son, Zachary, discuss the value of reaching out to young people interested in medicine to make today’s students tomorrow’s physicians.

Tired of preparing for a Maintenance of Certification (MOC) test that didn’t reflect his skills or what he practiced on a daily basis, Paul Teirstein, MD, set out to create an alternative to the process.

There is a special group of physicians who work tirelessly to improve the lives of their patients, their own medical practice and the well-being of their community. To us, those physicians are ChangeMakers.

Value-based care has maintained broad support, even in the highly partisan atmosphere in Washington

For 2018, there are changes to the requirements of CPC+. I will focus on the CPC+ electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs).

A look at how Medicare is reforming primary care payment.

Choosing the option of completing the Advancing Care Information (ACI) section of Medicare's Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) offers physicians one clear path through the complex thicket of guidelines that define the program.

Bob Doherty of the ACP breaks down the major healthcare implications of the government's funding plan.

We told you the top 10 most in demand metros for physicians, as well as the top 10 metros doctors are getting the biggest pay raises, but what about the worst places for physicians who are looking for a salary bump?

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In our Coding Case Studies, we will explore the correct coding for a specific condition based on a hypothetical clinical scenario.

Older adults in the United States are sicker and more likely to skip treatment than senior patients in 10 other developed countries, according to an international survey by the Commonwealth Fund.

Just as the medical profession strives to manage health and disease risks to ensure sound health, the estate planning profession strives to manage risks to ensure a client and his or her family's financial health and wellbeing.

An HHS spokesperson told Medical Economics that Anne Schuchat, MD, formerly principal deputy director, is now the acting director of the CDC. With a background in internal medicine, here are five other facts physicians should know about the new head of the agency.

Read on to find out the top 10 metros physicians get the biggest pay raises.

The Overbilling Conundrum.

As practices face the daunting task of implementing the infrastructure needed to meet new value-based care objectives while simultaneously juggling business-as-usual, every minute and each investment matters.

In between the headache that is healthcare for physicians these days, Medical Economics has tried to insert some laughter into the crazy and hectic lives of our readers through our Funny Bone Comics. Click through to see which cartoons you got the most joy and laughs from this past year.

Here are five things to know about how a Medicare AWV can assist both patients and practices.