Practice Finance

Although there’s no cure for osteoarthritis, it’s certainly possible for primary care physicians to not only help their patients manage symptoms, but also improve reimbursement for doing so.

Prescribing a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis not only helps alleviate symptoms, but it may also help physicians trigger performance-based bonuses from certain commercial payers.

Financial discussions with patients don’t have to be uncomfortable for physicians

Prepare now to minimize this year's tax bill.

Getting paid requires accurate documentation and selecting the correct codes. In our Coding Case Studies, we will explore the correct coding for a specific condition based on a hypothetical clinical scenario.

Check out these highlights from the latest edition

Emails luring physicians and staff into installing malware on their computers continues to spread. Here’s how to protect yourself and your patients.

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

How negative answers affect the documentation

Outside the media spotlight, many primary care practices face the basic challenge of staying afloat financially.

No one likes to fire an employee, but if someone is dragging down the practice, it’s time to make a change

What physicians need to know about different funding sources.

Physicians are riding the digital health wave, investing in startup companies long before they reach the public stock markets as technology and regulation disrupt the healthcare industry.

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.