Patient Relations

The top news stories in medicine this week.

Kansas court records reviewed by The New York Times show the practice charged 18% annual interest, garnished bank accounts and pursued arrest warrants over balances as small as $101.

Since April, confidence in Anthony Fauci has fallen to just 50%, while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unchanged at 38%, in a survey fielded during the Senate contempt vote.

Physicians reveal which channels give the most medical misinformation to patients

Researchers verified thousands of fake reviews posted by providers and clinic staff and found them longer, more clinically detailed and better received than the real thing. HIPAA leaves physicians very little room to respond.

An Annenberg Public Policy Center survey of 1,904 adults found 87% are confident in their own doctor, nurse or other primary care physician, compared with 59% to 61% for the three federal health agencies.

Physicians Foundation findings point to problem getting worse as doctors’ time constraints increase.

Medical Economics spoke with Michael Pelagalli, J.D., partner at internet defamation firm Minc Law, about where the legal line sits and what a practice should do first.

Despite major problems across U.S. health care, evidence shows what primary care is getting right.

An analysis of 3.6 million patient portal messages found that greetings, length and punctuation helped determine who got a reply from their own physician.

Patient preferences shape clinical decisions, but so do corporate policies, according to PAI survey of employed physicians.

Here’s how AI hallucinations are creating a patient safety problem no one is talking about.

AMA says new guidance from CMS closed gaps documented in health plans' public prior authorization disclosures, but the work isn't finished.

A JAMA Network Open study of nearly 175 million U.S. adults found 68.6% view immediately released results first — many don't understand what they read.

A third straight year of survey data shows patient standards transforming into hard filters — and increasingly, it's AI doing the filtering.

The clinical data to identify mismatched coverage — and fix it before it becomes bad debt — is already sitting in your EHR.

The clinician shortage is real, but there are other reasons why mental health referrals often go nowhere.

Medicare's proposed 2027 reimbursement rates would fall below the cost of RPM devices, risking declines in physician pay and patient health

Three in four patients now refuse to book with a provider rated below 4 stars

Physicians have questions about capitation. Here's what it means for your practice.

Patients read normalizing language as a signal that treatment isn't recommended, new research finds.

What happens when the CDC steps back from outbreak surveillance? We’re seeing it in real time, a doctor says

What clinicians should ask before trusting artificial intelligence with medication decisions

As the outbreak continues, here’s what physicians need to know about diagnosing cyclosporiasis this summer

Just 49% of adults can now consistently afford needed care and medications