Austin Littrell
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Austin Littrell is associate editor of Medical Economics.
Articles by Austin Littrell
Access has overtaken staffing as health care's defining challenge, and physicians who don't embrace AI and team-based care risk falling behind.
An emergency medicine resident with a valid work permit was taken into custody at an airport days after a family physician was detained at a nearby Border Patrol checkpoint.
Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) explains why he wants to ban the WISeR model, and why AI should be used to fix prior authorization, not make it worse.
A new KFF tracking poll shows AI use rivaling social media as a source of health information, particularly among younger and uninsured patients.
Skillsoft's Asha Palmer, J.D., on why clinicians keep reaching for unsanctioned AI, what risks practices are actually underestimating and how to build governance that sticks.
ArentFox Schiff's Pat Naples, J.D., breaks down the legal basis behind CMS's latest antifraud push and what physician practices need to do before investigators come knocking.
Physicians who signed on during implementation and never revisited their plan may be paying for tools they've never opened.
WalletHub's analysis of 182 cities across 41 health indicators finds the West Coast and Mountain West on top.
Bates says medicine needs a "quarterback" model for patients with multiple chronic conditions; Sims says without solving access first, no other strategy holds.
Aeroflow Health CEO Casey Hite explains how tariffs forced his company to innovate faster, and why the rest of the health care industry should take the same approach.
Health care accounted for 84% of total recoveries.
Better quality focus and policy pressure are driving down safety events, even as the patients left in hospitals grow more complex.
The top news stories in medicine this week.
Ambient listening is going mainstream. Advanced practice providers are filling a physician shortage that isn't going away anytime soon.
Health care attorney Pat Naples, J.D., breaks down the legal mechanics behind CMS's latest antifraud actions and what physicians should be doing before enforcement comes to them.
Employment attorney Christopher Mayer, J.D., breaks down what physician practice leaders need to know about AI-driven layoff decisions and the fast-changing landscape for non-compete agreements.
The South and Gulf Coast own the bottom of WalletHub's 182-city ranking, as three Texas cities land in the bottom 10.
Staffing shortages, rising patient acuity and the spread of AI self-diagnosis tools are all hitting the health care system at the same time.
Rosemarie Aznavorian says acuity matters more than ratios, and when patients self-treat before arriving, hospitals need even more nurses to care for them.
Ambient artificial intelligence scribes are the biggest shift in clinical documentation in a generation. Here’s what the evidence actually shows.
PYA's Shannon Sumner, CPA, CHC, breaks down what the federal government's escalating fraud enforcement push means for physician practices.
Access to care surged 14 points in two years to become the No. 1 policy issue for physicians.
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