Jeff Bendix

Building your practice for a new future

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic recession have affected Americans in myriad ways, including their mental and emotional health.

How independent practices can survive by working together.

How IPCLI has integrated data from its members’ EHR systems

Juan Espinoza, MD, vice president of the Independent Pediatric Collaborative of Long Island, explains

Creating a solid retirement plan can build peace of mind as you navigate the challenges of practicing medicine today. So what should you be doing?

Doctors have enjoyed more than a decade of relatively affordable medical malpractice premiums. But for many, those good times are ending.

Doctors need to investigate the core culture of a potential employer before signing a contract with them.

Practices unable to survive financially due to the pandemic have simply been closing, rather than selling themselves to hospital systems.

If you’re a small practice living on fee-for-service, and suddenly all your patients disappear, you realize how much risk you’re under, as opposed to those who have moved to some sort of capitation or bonus for quality.

Burnout was bad before the pandemic. COVID is likely to make the problem worse.

Because the majority of physicians are white and male, the unconscious assumptions they may hold about patients who are neither white nor male can lead to inappropriate treatment decisions, and on a larger scale, worsen disparities in health outcomes.

ACP’s president, Jack Ende, outlines the organization’s stance not against guns, but rather firearm violence

We spoke with ChangeMaker John Hsu, MD, a Whittier, California-based anesthesiologist, on the need to intervene in the opioid crisis.

We spoke with ChangeMaker John Hsu, MD, a California-based anesthesiologist on the need to intervene in the opioid crisis.

There is a special group of physicians who work tirelessly to improve the lives of their patients, their own medical practice and the well-being of their community. To us, those physicians are ChangeMakers.

Bob Doherty of the ACP breaks down the major healthcare implications of the government's funding plan.