Practice Management

You have no choice but to trust your patients when they say that they are taking their medications as prescribed. But they could be about to change with new technology that remotely keeps track of whether patients really do stick to their healthcare regimens.

Weight management and nutrition counseling may offer a way to help your patients—and your practice—become healthy.

Medicare may begin paying primary care physicians for the time they spend on post-discharge care coordination and preventive counseling and screening services via telehealth. Also, PCPs may get options for participating in quality improvement programs.

EHRs can pose a security risk to your patients. Discover what you can do to protect the data.

Thinking about incorporating midlevel providers into your practice? Here's what you need to know before doing so.

Using an electronic health record (EHR) system can help keep your patients loyal to your practice, especially if the EHR lets patients access their personal health information online, according to a new study.

It's easy for practices to become inefficient over time. Learn how meetings can change that.

Here's what to focus on when you're switching to 5010.

Nearly 11 million people in the United States had their healthcare data lost or stolen last year, almost twice as many as the previous year.

Want to increase the efficiency of your practice? Here are eight ways to do so.

E-prescribing has caught on big in Minnesota. Doctors there had the highest rate of e-prescribing use in 2011, according to the seventh annual "Safe-Rx Awards" survey from the e-prescribing service Surescripts.

This month's question asks about effective dates and Medicare. Find out the answer to this pressing coding question.

Are you looking toward retirement and thinking of selling your practice? Discover how to make it all happen.

Implementation of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10), has been delayed until October 1, 2014, according to new rules published in the Federal Register.

Think you don't need to read your contracts? Think again.

Medical Economics Editor-in-Chief Lois A. Bowers, MA, discusses with Charles J. Lockwood, MD, MHCM, the challenges facing the healthcare system, improving outcomes, and lowering costs.

Medical Economics readers discuss the need to apologize for errors, the fact that sometimes advice can't change reality, and why there may be a better word than reimbursement for payer payments to physicians.

Over the past few weeks, the government red tape has piled up and there's only one thing left to ask. How much more will physicians put up with?

Despite advances in technology, knowledge, and innovation, the U.S. health system comes up short on basic fundamentals such as quality, outcomes, cost, and equity, according to the Institute of Medicine.

The overwhelming majority of physician practices are concerned about the prospect of transitioning to the ICD-10 coding system, according to a new survey.

Primary care physicians, for a number of reasons, are reaching out to consultants to help them implement meaningful use stage 1 requirements, according to a new study from KLAS.

If you are focusing on updating your electronic health records during patient visits, you may be missing out on cues needed to treat depression, according to a new study out of the University of Florida.

Happtique, an online mobile application (app) store for healthcare, has a new e-prescribing solution dubbed “mRx†that enables physicians to prescribe medical, health, and fitness-related apps for their patients.

The United States can help control prescription drug costs by employing tactics like reference pricing and cost- and comparative- effectiveness research that have proven successful in other countries.

Sometimes dividing your estate unequally among your children makes sense, but doing so also can cause lasting conflict.

A new HIPAA standard for national unique health plan identifiers will save primary care physicians money and time, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The unnecessary ordering of diagnostic imaging tests is the focus of two articles published this week. Find out what's being done to correct the problem.

This month's question asks about the use of modifiers for services performed before a hospital admission. Find out the answer to this pressing coding question.

Medical Economics asks doctors what the future of primary care looks like.

Medical Economics readers discuss whether competition and the free market will really help the healthcare system.