March 31st 2025
Consolidation can create benefits, along with organizational gaps. Here’s how a strategic plan can help.
March 24th 2025
A view from the front lines in a pediatric practice.
March 21st 2025
Because early detection is key, here is what clinicians should know about advanced strategies and emerging treatments to optimize patient outcomes in bladder cancer management.
March 20th 2025
Medical offices may feel clinical, but some personality and warmth will connect with patient emotions.
March 18th 2025
No matter how or when Medicaid cuts manifest, Medicaid plan leaders must act now to preserve member support and provider payment stability.
Keeping frontline health care workers at the bedside
We all have a role to play.
The growing division within the house of medicine
The Power of data and working together to solve health crisis
Healthcare professionals and policy makers must act, as we go from the crisis phase of the pandemic, to managing an ongoing public health risk.
To protect patient access to care, Medicare must up its reimbursement rates
There's one sector of the economy where prices are growing much more slowly: health care.
Remote patient monitoring needs clinical intervention to ensure success
As any competent clinician will tell you, having data is only one part of the equation. A clinician must also be able to intervene efficiently and effectively.
The prices are coming! A health care price transparency revolution is at hand
Has health care price transparency actually arrived?
Why your patients need advance care plans
End-of-life care discussions with patients are critical for physicians of any specialty, but especially primary care.
Making the Primary Care System Better After the Covid-19 Pandemic
A strategic blueprint for fixing primary care.
How do we care for the caregivers?
We simply must provide better preparation and support for those who care for others.
How do we care for the care givers?
I have been left to wonder, how does being a caregiver affect the health of the caregiver and what how does our system dysfunction play into that effect?
COVID-19 Epilogue: 10 Lessons Learned After Two Long Pandemic Years
Much has changed since the beginning of the pandemic.
Realizing a society free of vaccine-preventable diseases
The pandemic underscored the incredible power of vaccination.
Job Security Amidst Mental Health Distress: Physicians Deserve to Get Help Without Fear
We cannot continue to ignore the problem of physician mental distress.
CDC’s proposed opioid prescribing guideline: Does it fall short on drug testing?
Some research shows the previous guideline may have led to the under-treatment of patients with chronic pain.
3 things to address to ensure a stable supply chain for your practice
Even as we begin to envision a post-pandemic future, continuing backlogs and unsustainable workarounds and rising international turmoil supply fresh evidence that supply-chain fragility is untenable.
A physician's hopes for 2022
It is time to take stock of where we have been and where we are going.
Amid disruption, how do we "future proof" health care?
The pandemic’s profound impact on the industry has only heightened with staffing shortages and health care legislation complexities.
An idea whose time has gone: Healthcare provider networks
Contracts between hospitals and providers create price discrimination and harm consumers
Primary care is the solution to our health care crisis
But doctors need more funding and payment options to be effective
Family physicians versus the health system
An exclusive excerpt from the new book “Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink."
My hopes for 2022
Here’s to 2022 being the year that we begin to make significant strides in improving the US health care system.
Automatically smarter: Spending less time on billing to earn more practice revenue
Medical billing is complex and time-consuming. Does it have to be?
Why I love being a primary care physician
When I read about the plight of primary care doctors and their widespread dissatisfaction with their profession, I remember Dr. William Vroom.
This radical approach to patient flow could revitalize your practice
Are you willing to try something different?
Using behavioral science and AI to meet the needs of patients and providers
Leveraging insights from AI and behavioral science can improve financial outcomes as well as clinical ones.
Doctor’s Office or Dollar General? How increased choice will impact patient loyalty
This trend presents an enormous challenge for traditional practices.
It's time to bring competition back to health care
Health care cost increases are not the result of over-utilization, but rather legalized kickback schemes.
How and why physicians must address burnout
There are ways to mitigate stress by managing its symptoms. But there are also ways to lessen stress by preventing some of it in the first place.
The need for more primary care never goes away
In response to great need for primary care, we have been purposefully redesigning and changing it for a decade now. Have we made any progress?
Setting boundaries: How to say no — and when to say yes
As we approach the holidays, we often find ourselves feeling overwhelmed and overcommitted. ‘Tis the season to start setting boundaries.