Medical Economics November 2021

Four physicians discuss why they left their traditional practice model behind and made the leap to offer a membership-based primary care program.

Because physicians are likely to be sued at some point, they should always be working in a way that helps mitigate their legal risks.

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a sea change in the way that physicians treat their patients and nowhere is this more evident that in the near-overnight implementation of telehealth across the health care industry.

Physicians in office practice know that a professional, motivated staff is key to a practice’s success. But finding, training and retaining employees can be a significant challenge for practices.

Now that patients have seen how technology can change their health care experience for the better, practices must adapt by using the latest tools or risk losing their patients to competitors.

Physicians spend most of their lives training to be the best doctors they can be. What they don’t spend a lot of time doing is understanding what they are worth.

As medicine grows increasingly corporate, doctors are finding that career advancement requires understanding the business side of the profession

The rapid growth of ETFs makes more tightly focused strategies accessible to individual investors, especially those bewildered by the often daunting task of picking stocks.

Medical decision making now is influenced by everyone from insurers and government policymakers to the administrators of corporate entities that employ physicians.

Economic outlook for the year cut as inflation increases.

What impact does inflation have on consumers and the economy?

Collecting from non-paying patients is vital to keeping a practice open