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Own-occupation disability insurance pays when you can't work in your own occupation or specialty. How policies define disability and where to verify terms.

Maternity care's global billing package ends Jan. 1, and employed OB/GYNs paid on productivity could feel it first.

Crossing into a higher tax bracket raises the rate only on the dollars above the line. Here's how the math works and how to find your real tax rate.

Paying membership fees with pretax employer dollars held cost growth to 0.9% a year, but the numbers come with caveats physicians should know before pitching employers.

Adding more tasks right now with no explanation is a formula for clinician burnout.

Rural docs say they need help as 'adequate' physician presence becomes the exception, not the norm.

Prior authorization, step therapy and shifting coverage rules keep patients from obesity drugs with proven benefits, an endocrinologist argues — and the long-term savings make the case for broader access.

Six questions primary care physicians should ask about indoor air quality in their practices.

Milbank Memorial Fund finds uneven training standards, workforce tracking for nurse practitioners.