April 10th 2025
Addressing the unique, complex needs in women’s health care while improving care, easing the burden on OB-GYNs, and ensuring adequate payment.
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.
Tips to guarantee successful patient centered medical homes
The patient centered medical home (PCMH)-once a somewhat nebulous concept-has become more tangible over the last eight years as primary care organizations have implemented strategies to achieve its fundamental tenets.
Should you own real estate as an investment?
I’m often asked about owning a rental house or two as an investment. My answer is of course “it’s complicated.”
10 tips for physicians to be better leaders
Most physicians were never trained on how to become effective leaders, but luckily, it can still be learned.
Payments for some, pain for others with ICD-10
The ICD-10 road into November has been smooth for some physicians and bumpy for others in our latest ICD-10 Diary project entries.
When does a simple IRA make sense for your practice?
Steven Podnos, MD, CFP, shares his insights into how and when to choose a simple IRA for your practice.
16 spooky Halloween-themed ICD-10 codes
With Halloween right around the corner, be on the lookout for some of these lighthearted incidents that may require new ICD-10 codes.
2015 EHR Report Card
The key to saving money is like watching paint dry
It is magic-you just save, invest wisely and unemotionally, and you have wealth at the end. Really.
Coding ICD-10 may be easier than getting claims paid
Here are physician quotes after week two of the ICD-10 coding transition taken from Medical Economics' ICD-10 Diary project.
Top 15 must-have apps for medical practices
From apps to help patients track their wellness to disease research and clinical information at the tap of an icon, here are peer-recommended apps to download today.
CMS delays start of Meaningful Use 3
Final Rule makes additional changes to reporting requirements
Letter: Meaningful use is meaningless for my patients
The following is excerpted from a response to a letter published in the July 25, 2015 issue of Medical Economics by Elmer F. Toro, M.D. It is followed by his response to this and other letters of support he has received.
Tort reform still represents the pain of an ailing system
Group Editor Daniel Verdon says tort reform is just one part of a complex problem encompassing providers, payers, physicians, and the justice system.
Editor's Blog: Doctor, this might hurt a little
Physicians are facing a cascade of change, and primary care doctors will lead them through it.