Opinion

From the vendor for billing and collections software, to an EHR, if physicians have the need to succeed in value-based reimbursement, help is available.

Before dismissing the idea because of the perceived stigma, warranted or not, with marijuana use, consider these 5 reasons why your postop patient should consider rolling a joint after surgery.

You’ve no doubt heard about large healthcare companies and hospital systems being purchased for staggering sums by private equity firms.

A recent survey by Morning Consult showed that across the country, in both red and blue states, the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that a health system based on a foundation of primary care produces healthier patients, higher quality healthcare and lower costs.

Software systems can go down for a variety of reasons, but mitigation solutions can ensure your practice can manage through it.

Cutting-edge practices are enabling patients to do more via portals, and increasing engagement as a result.

Liver transplant outcomes have improved following the introduction of new hepatitis C virus drugs, according to a new study.

Primary care professionals can “substantially expand” HCV treatment in the community, according to new research.

Regardless of whether the chicken or the egg came first, the caterpillar may have the edge when it comes to vaccine production, a new report finds.

Those age 65 and older faced the most cases of the flu and were most often hospitalized during the 2016-17 season, according to new CDC data.

Primary care practices located in community settings do a better job of providing high-value, cost-effective services than primary care practices within hospital settings, according to a recent article in JAMA Internal Medicine.

There could not be anything more different than the experience one has between checking in at the doctor’s office and checking in to the Ritz-Carlton.

When is ACP a covered service for Medicare patients?

After more than a year at work, the Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force in June issued its report on what providers must do to better safeguard patient data.

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IPAB was established in 2010 to cut Medicare spending if the program’s five-year growth rate rose faster than a target growth rate. Because IPAB could make those cuts without Congressional oversight, there is concern about how reductions in Medicare spending would affect its 57 million beneficiaries

Document, document and document some more.

Improved documentation and data can not only improve wellness, but also a practice’s value scores

The wrong malpractice coverage can cost physicians

President Donald Trump is trying to let Obamacare disintegrate on its own

Study shows that longer sleep duration was associated with reductions in several markers for type 2 diabetes.

Patients at high risk could be identified and targeted for intervention, resulting in the potential for high healthcare cost savings.

The devastation that hit the coast of Texas certainly qualifies as a time that tries men’s souls. However, at the same time, it is the heart and soul of your fellow man that may allow you to survive that acute devastation and to salvage hope for the future.

This problem represents yet one more example of CMS’ ill-advised attempts to dictate what transpires in the course of the doctor-patient encounter.

The telehealth boom begs the question: Will the expansion of hospital-based services wind up pulling patients-and revenue-away from primary care practices?

Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+), the new model for primary care in America, is changing the way physicians run their offices in a revolutionary way.

Often considered the social outcast of healthcare, behavioral health has long struggled to obtain legitimacy in the eyes of the general medical community. But with more than 60 million Americans effected every year from mental illness, something has to change.

A look at how doctors can get their patients to leave online reviews.

While there are some frustrating aspects of this documentary and assertions that shouldn’t be taken as fact, there are several other messages worth focusing on in this documentary.