Medical Economics November 2022

Digitizing patient health data was supposed to make it usable for public and population health research. So far, that hasn’t happened.

As nurse practitioners gain more practice freedom, advocates for physician-led care debate the training differences

What you need to know about prolonged services, medical assistant, and E/M codes.

4 areas of malpractice risk physicians must know about

It’s more important than ever for practices to find additional revenue streams because costs are increasing with inflation.

A misconception physicians have is that their patients are not looking for a different type of care. However, research shows this couldn’t be further from the truth.

Although value-based payment models offer several advantages compared with fee-for-service models, practices are sometimes reluctant to try them due to concerns about the additional documentation and workflow changes they require.

What physicians need to know

How can you protect your wealth from inflation’s erosion of buying power if the traditional solution — bonds — won’t do this job?

Not understanding what business ‘quality’ means can be costly

Because practicing medicine in 2022 looks very different than practicing medicine 40 or even 20 years ago, younger doctors are setting different priorities for their careers than their older peers.