Jeff Bendix

What should a physician do when their ethical training conflicts with the circumstances or needs of a particular situation or patient?

Panelists highlight care options unavailable under fee-for-service model

In this podcast, we spoke with Lisa Larkin, MD, on the need to focus on women's health in medicine.

Bob White, COO of The Doctors Company, says most lawsuits occur due to patient frustration with not getting answers to their questions regarding an unexpected outcome.

Doctors have long known that patients’ expectations have a significant impact on the effectiveness of treatments prescribed for them. But much less is known about the effect of providers’ expectations for those treatments.

What does the pandemic tell us about the state of public health in the us today and going forward?

As understanding of implicit bias grows, so do techniques for combating it.

How to negotiate the position best for you

Richard Roberts, MD, JD, discusses why physicians would be wise to trust their feelings when approaching career decisions.

Mobile health (mHealth) apps are exploding in number and popularity, a development that presents new challenges for physicians: How do they determine which among the thousands of health-related apps on the market will help their patients? And how do they receive and process data from these apps in a form they can use?

If the Coronavirus pandemic contains any silver lining for primary care doctors, it may be to speed the adoption of telemedicine and other alternatives to in-person patient visits.

In some cases even small improvements in revenue and operating efficiencies can make the difference between staying independent and selling or merging a practice,

Decisions about malpractice insurance may be among the most important a doctor can make.

Tips for understanding and treating one of the nation's most prevalent diseases

How to thread the needle when talking to patients about medical mistakes.

Focus on trust and communication

Judge says prescription drug market will remain competitive

What doctors need to know about revamping their office space to meet consumer demands.

Electronic health records hold significant potential for improving patient care, but they also present doctors with new ethical challenges they didn’t face in the era of paper charts.

The forces driving the latest wave of consolidation in healthcare and what it means for doctors and their patients.

Even though they’ve been available for decades, portals have yet to meet their lofty expectations, a situation for which both patients and doctors share the blame.

Experts say insurance companies sometimes underpay the contracted amount for a service or procedure-and practices often are unaware when it happens.

Will government ‘solutions’ to the opioid crisis make it worse?

Outside the media spotlight, many primary care practices face the basic challenge of staying afloat financially.

The rise of social media has given medical practices a new tool for overcoming one of their biggest headaches: resolving disputes

Lisa Larkin, MD, has started two practices from scratch, directed a university-based women's health center, helped to start a regional consortium for sexual medicine, and survived breast cancer.

The skyrocketing number of Americans dying from opioid overdoses has physicians, public health officials and politicians scrambling for ways to stem the epidemic.

Medical Economics recently spoke with Peter Goldbach, MD, chief medical officer with Health Dialog, a provider of population health management services, on the importance of shared decision-making in medical care and improving patient outcomes.

With the right preparation, chronic care management can create additional revenue

For practices without the resources to meet the billing requirements for chronic care management, outsourcing can obtain some of code’s clinical and financial benefits.