Practice Management

Medicare will pay primary care physicians for care coordination.

Slowing growth of spending on healthcare services by $2 trillion from 2014 to 2023 could be possible through a set of strategic policies.

Plenty of stories exist about horrible EHR implementation, and you might be especially worried if you run a small practice. Learn how to successfully implement a new system in a small practice setting.

A risk retention group offers an alternative to traditional medical malpractice insurance. Find out more.

Do you have a job opportunity that will be taking you overseas? Here's how you can reap some tax benefits.

Legislation aimed at eliminating the Independent Payment Advisory Board has garnered strong praise from the American Medical Association.

Medical Economics readers argue that the fixes to primary care are already too late; that Newtown, Connecticut, should focus more on the human element than guns; and that doctors that insurance brokers want what's best for both the client and the agent.

Health information technology advances have failed to save the healthcare industry money because the current systems are too disconnected and difficult to use, according to a new report from Rand Corp.

Once rare, telemedicine has now entered the mainstream. See how you can incorporate it into your practice for less than you might have imagined.

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This month's question focuses on the need to be especially careful with codes when working in a large practice. Find out the answer to this pressing coding question.

You might be thinking about making the jump from working in a hospital system to solo practice. See why the leap won't be without its challenges.

If you're a respected doctor in your community, some companies may want you to help grease the wheels of their introduction into the area. Here's what you need to know in order to keep any arrangement on the legal side.

With the price of gold seeming to go up exponentially every day, it may seem like a solid investment. Discover how it can be, when invested in prudently.

With the ICD-10 deadline looming, will physician groups actually be able to keep implementation from happening?

You only have until this Tuesday-February 12-to complete the federally mandated Economic Census.

Renewed efforts to eliminate the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula have arisen with the introduction of legislation that would permanently repeal the SGR and reform Medicare payment and delivery systems.

Despite federal funding to increase the number of primary care providers, few new positions have been added, according to a new study.

More than 500 organizations have signed on to participate in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Bundled Payments and Care Improvement initiative, which will test whether bundling payments can result in better coordinated care and lower Medicare costs.

Eligible professionals, including physicians, have until the end of the month to submit any pending Medicare Part B claims from calendar year 2012 under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program.

Under the traditional primary care model, a physician shortage is inevitable. But using new methods such as doctor pooling and diverting as low as 20% of cases to non-physicians could eradicate the shortage completely, a new study claims.

Family physicians surpass specialists and other office-based physician on EHR adoption rates, according to a new report.

Whether or not physicians are comfortable with moving their practices into the virtual realm, more and more patients are moving in that direction, and some say digital communication may even improve their level of honesty with their doctors.

Only 11 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws or issued regulations to implement the Affordable Care Act’s major health insurance market reforms that go into effect in 2014, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.

Data collection will begin this August, with reporting to begin in September 2014 for a new rule aimed at increasing financial transparency in the healthcare industry, says the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Data collection and quality reporting for diabetic patients cost primary care practices almost $10,000 per year, according to a new report that cautions policymakers to consider the cost of implementation and maintenance when mandating value-based purchasing initiatives.

The percentage of U.S. physicians who belong to private, independent practices has plummeted to 39% from 57% over the last dozen years.

Twenty percent of healthcare providers using a proprietary electronic health record system reported that doing so helped save the life of one or more patients, according to a recent nationwide survey.

Younger adults are frequenting retail and work-based clinics because of the convenience and accessibility they offer, according to a new poll.

Primary care physicians (PCP) provide better diabetes care than other providers, according to a new study performed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.