Practice Management

As the deadline to secure 2014 healthcare coverage grows closer, many Americans say they would rather pay a fine than sign up for insurance.

The complexity of insurance reform and time demands of administrative mandates are putting ever-greater pressure on primary care doctors' ability to care for their patients.

‘High deductible’ patients provide an opportunity for practices to modernize payment policies.

A new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rule known as the “two-midnight provision” instructs physicians on when hospital admission is appropriate.

Some patients with high deductible plans neglect preventative care.

Delivering quality patient care key to physician satisfaction, study finds

Breaking up with your spouse could be the the greatest threat to the financial health of your medical practice.

An Oklahoma family physician explains how a high-volume practice uses its EHR system

Thought leaders identify risks that many physicians overlook and offer steps to protect from liability

There are times when a practice needs to order supplies for patients through a Durable Medical Equipment (DME) provider. But there has been some recent changes to these rules.

Whether they like it or not, physicians are in the public space. Physician and social media pro Dr. Bryan Vartabedian says it’s important that physicians shape their own online conversation, rather than letting others shape it for them. Here are three tips to get started.

Toxic employees can be a drag on your medical practice, sapping the morale of your staff and impacting how your patients view you. Here are some tips to help you identify and manage toxic employees, and provide these workers a chance to shape up before you have no choice but to ship them out.

Your practice successfully terminated participation in a health plan that no longer represents a good value proposition for you. Here are some things to think about as you become a non-participating provider.

Protecting against embezzlement comes down to eliminating opportunity. You cannot do much, if anything, to control another person’s motive or rationalization. However, motive and rationalization are the places where you look for a problem.

High-quality care and efficiency – Those are the two points that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) emphasized with the release of its 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

Two Connecticut medical associations won a temporary injunctive order against UnitedHealthcare in federal court hours before the insurer was set to drop thousands of doctors and patients from its rolls.

Timelines were extended today to meet Meaningful Use (MU) 2 and 3 electronic health record (EHR) incentives, report two top officials from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Researchers found that most medical graduates practice near where they trained, a trend that partly explains the primary care shortage.

A systematic review of studies of patient portals finds insufficient evidence that they improve health outcomes or utilization, or lower costs.

While the overall impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is still largely undetermined, it seems to have many physicians re-evaluating their length of stay in practice.

The Hartford County and Fairfield County medical associations in Connecticut took their fight against UnitedHealthcare to a town hall meeting November 26, in front of prominent federal and state legislators.

More tech-savvy seniors want access to healthcare via smartphones, tablets and other web devices.

A new proposal to reform the broken Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula has emerged from Congress. It calls for a repeal of the SGR, a 10-year payment freeze and a new performance-based incentive program.

Most primary care physicians love their work, but they are clearly frustrated about their income and the increasing compliance challenges associated with payers and government initiatives, according to results from the 85th annual Medical Economics 2013 Exclusive Continuing Study

The decision to leave a health plan is often still a difficult one, especially with the dominant health plans in your market. However, if you do decide you are through, here is how you can get out of your agreement and start your new life as a non-participating provider.

New compensation models will be key as payers look to reward quality vs. volume

A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed a letter urging House leadership to support repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, a long-time revenue threat to physicians.

Actress Angelina Jolie made headlines around the world last May when she wrote an op-ed in The New York Times describing how she elected to have a preventive double mastectomy based on the results of genetic tests. Her decision cast genetic and genomic testing into the spotlight, and widescale product development may soon fuel new patient inquiries-a lot of them.

A reader notes that alternatives exist to the current adversarial system of settling medical malpractice claims.

The author proposes a new way of paying for healthcare that keeps elements of the fee-for-service model but also takes outcomes into account.