Opinion

After initial investment, approach could help reduce outpatient and professional costs while maintaining or improving outcomes, new study says.

New data suggest that neighborhood environments have significant effects on health.

A palliative care expert says internists are forging critical bonds with patients today for difficult discussions that can occur in the future.

CMS acknowledges that smaller practices will face penalties of $300 million under MIPS in year one.

Medical societies are welcoming the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule for implementing the legislation that will change the way Medicare reimburses physicians.

The business of medicine has drastically changed over the past 20 years.

“Motivational interviewing” helps patients make needed lifestyle, diet alterations.

Small, independent practices have dealt with no shortage of challenges in recent years: Complex regulatory requirements, increased payer scrutiny and more pressure on physicians to improve patient outcomes.

We already told you the top 12 secondary incomes for physicians, according to the latest edition of the Medical Economics Physician Report.But what about the rest of the financial state of primary care practices in the United States?

Researchers call success of direct-acting antivirals against hepatitis C “a major breakthrough.”

A new report finds that hepatitis B and C can be eliminated as a public health problem.

If you think that you have not had a data breach in your business, you are an ostrich with your head in the sand.

Time and again the medical marvels of exercise have been proven. But there’s still not much coaching going on in exam rooms. Only about 9% of doctor office visits include physical activity counseling.

Hospital and healthcare software security can always be marginally improved, but if we want to lower the risk of healthcare security breaches, we need to take a very different approach.

Much has been written about whether physicians in practice would recommend that their children pursue a career in medicine. The 87th Annual Physician Report by Medical Economics shows only 40% would.

Retail clinics, ABMS, MOC and quality metrics are the hot topics of Your Voice this month.

Maintaining compliance with the rules and regulations that apply to medical practices can be a tall order, especially for small practices with limited resources.

Q:I received a letter from Medicare stating that I had more 99214s than my cohort of internal medicine providers, and that I needed to correct this in six months. I don’t believe that I’ve done anything wrong. How can they do this?

Primary care physicians see their practices improve as they become more nimble in a fast-changing world

Ways physicians can ready their practices for the future of reimbursement.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) shift to alternative physician payments has been a bumpy one. But its newest model, the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO), aims to smooth the way for healthcare providers looking to make the leap to value-based payments.

Despite the improvements, the new Next Generation ACOs still may not be the right fit for every organization.

While consumer apps have evolved quickly, apps for physicians have lagged behind, in both quality and utility

The following was sent to Virginia Moyer, MD, vice president for maintenance of certification (MOC) and quality at the American Board of Pediatrics a year ago. While the author ultimately completed MOC, lack of movement on this issue played a large part in the author’s decision to stop practicing.

The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) recently announced findings from a survey it conducted about potential changes to the current Maintenance of Certification (MOC) assessment.

The math is easy. The numbers of older adults in the United States continues to increase, while the number of physicians entering training programs for geriatric fellowships is decreasing.

A troubling new study about the “unhealthy behaviors” of millions of Americans documented a reality that has increasingly become all too familiar to me and the 209,000 other primary care physicians in the United States-more than 25 million adults have at least three behaviors that inevitably lead to poor health.

Burnout, which is often described in terms of the experience of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lost sense of personal accomplishment, is a big and growing problem for physicians and for their patients-with lower quality of patient care where professional burnout rates are higher.

If you are looking for extra income in today’s ever changing-and money grabbing-healthcare industry, there are several options for physicians.We recently asked our audience if they received a secondary income outside their practice or employer to find out the most popular secondary incomes they took advantage of for themselves.

I am slowly getting used to a bit more hurried visit and a little less attention from my doctor. I wonder if my doctors will see the silent tears I cry…one thing is for certain: Today’s EHR won’t.