Physician payment in 2023: Alternative payment models
The 5% alternative payment models need extension.
Physician payment in 2023: Understanding statutory PAYGO
And another 4% pay cut on the horizon?
The Physician Financial Checkup
Why many doctors underperform their wealth potential — and how to maximize yours.
Physician payment in 2023: The Medicare PFS conversion factor
A 4.47% pay cut on the horizon?
Physician payment in 2023: An introduction to Medicare PFS
How much will Medicare pay to physicians?
Will health care worker shortages get worse?
Could a better economy lead to more retirements?
How staff levels affect office burnout
Maximize licensure use at every level to avoid burnout.
When staffing affects physician office productivity
Staff, productivity, revenue: An interesting correlation.
Who’s competing with physicians for nurses?
Hospitals need to fill their nursing ranks.
Who’s competing with physicians for office workers?
When office or medical staff leave for better pay.
Pay flexibility in smaller practices
Here’s why small practices may adjust pay more quickly than large health systems.
Top Docs in Concierge Medicine
Quick to the middle
Responding to market forces by being dynamic and flexible with staff pay.
It’s a challenge to recruit and retain support staff
Market forces are affecting how physicians can find and keep staff.
From one primary care physician to another: Thank you
A small-town physician offers words of encouragement to his peers.
Physician advice part two: Why it’s so important for docs to be healthy
Self-care is needed for physicians to care for others.
Physician advice part one: Finding ways to stay connected to patients
An experienced doc offers his advice for the physician-patient relationship after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cognitive Assessments: Expanding Brain Health in Primary Care
Writing about medicine and people, the good and the bad
Volume logs life as a small-town physician
Public policy and acknowledging America’s huge health care problem
The United States is a great place to be sick, but needs to grow healthy people to begin with.
The opioid crisis has not gone away
Physicians and everyone should know substance use and addiction can hurt the ones they love.
Small-town medicine is about relationships in the community
Watching patients and the community grow is the heart of the job.
Analyzing social determinants of health in theory and practice
Why health care needs to change to recognize outside factors.
Why Austin, Indiana, is not an isolated case
In poverty, people make choices from options available.
HIV spreads as opioid users share needles
In 2010, infections and hepatitis C foreshadowed another epidemic.
Discovering the opioid epidemic
A new physician is surprised at requests for prescription painkillers.
Introducing Austin, Indiana, with the town physician
A ‘Tale of Two Cities’ off Interstate 65
A message to primary care physicians from The Physicians Foundation
The Physicians Foundation remains committed to supporting primary care physicians and to improving a sometimes toxic work environment in medicine.
Changes to alleviate burnout in medicine have taken time
A large, complex health care system takes a long time to change with actions from multiple people.
Barriers physicians face when seeking help for burnout
Finding, providing and paying for the best mental health services for physicians is a complicated topic, but there is an easy way to help.
