Medical Economics: Is the physician-patient relationship on life support?

Internal medicine and medical group leaders want a permanent fix for Medicare pay, while telehealth and speech-language groups focus on new billing rules.

AI risk alerts, new biomarkers and expanded screening are landing on primary care physicians without added time or staff. Shifting outreach, testing coordination and closed-loop referrals to partners can help practices close the gap.

New AMGA data show medical groups have trimmed clinic staff per provider even as wRVUs and visits keep rising, and physicians are absorbing the difference.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

A new Medical Economics personal finance resource for physicians, with coverage from residency through retirement, is coming soon.

A practical guide for physicians participating in ACOs, CINs and value-based contracts.

An emergency physician and hospitalist explains how a paperwork problem that followed him across his career became a startup, why he replaced his development team with an AI coding assistant and six lessons for physicians who want to build a business without leaving medicine.

Physician practices are a specified service trade or business under Section 199A. Here's how the 20% QBI deduction phases out, with 2026 IRS thresholds.