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Another year of Medicare cuts, with Anders Gilberg of MGMA
Another conversion factor cut is on the table for 2027, and MGMA's Anders Gilberg breaks down why budget neutrality keeps forcing cuts in one specialty to pay for another and what the end of MIPS means for physicians.

Better care, shorter careers for women physicians, with Lisa Rotenstein, M.D., MBA, M.Sc.
Female physicians leave clinical practice at a median age of 49, compared with age 64 for their male colleagues, and the practice patterns patients value most may be part of what drives them out.

What most physicians get wrong about direct primary care, with Josh Umbehr, M.D.
Most physicians know the direct primary care pitch; whether the economics hold up once you're in it is the more difficult question to answer.

Same procedure, 12 times the price: U.S. Women’s Health Alliance sounds the alarm
A reimbursement gap of five to 12 times for the same procedure is letting hospitals outbid private practices for their own physicians. Three U.S. Women's Health Alliance advocates explain what it costs patients and what they are asking Congress to do about it.
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Benefit design is quietly undermining primary care. How can doctors fight it?

Physicians have been quick to adopt AI scribes. Here’s how to integrate them the right way.

The corporate medicine crackdown is hitting the wrong target, says economist Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D.
Health care economist Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., argues that two decades of inflation-eroded Medicare payment, not corporate ownership or management services organizations, is what is pushing independent practices to sell.

A new global survey finds up to a third of patients never start prescribed treatment, and the gaps aren't about access — they're about a healthcare model still designed around the doctor's office as the front door.

A surgeon and biotech leader discusses the role of primary care doctors in wound care.

Why value-based care requires AI that tells clinicians not just who is at risk, but which interventions are most likely to change outcomes.


The collaborations pair Karl Storz's 3D visualization and OR integration technology with Moon Surgical's AI-native Maestro platform and Sovato's remote surgery capabilities, launching first in the U.S. ahead of a global rollout.

A framework published in npj Digital Medicine ranks patient care and staff experience alongside price, and says a health system that cannot score a tool across all five domains may not be ready to buy it.

















