# Medical Economics

> Medical Economics - Healthcare Publication

- Base URL: https://www.medicaleconomics.com
- Generated: 2026-10-18T21:25:20.142Z
- Content updates: multiple times daily

## Content Access for AI Agents

This site supports content negotiation for AI/LLM consumption. Request any article URL with an appropriate Accept header to receive structured content instead of HTML.

**Supported content types:**
- `text/markdown` — Clean Markdown with YAML frontmatter
- `text/plain` — Plain text (same as Markdown)
- `text/html` — Default HTML response

**Example request:**
```
curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/article-slug
```

**YAML frontmatter schema** (returned with every Markdown response):

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `title` | string | Article headline |
| `description` | string | Summary/excerpt (max 300 chars) |
| `url` | string | Canonical article URL |
| `canonical_url` | string | Canonical URL if different from `url` |
| `published` | ISO 8601 | Original publication date |
| `modified` | ISO 8601 | Last modification date |
| `authors` | string[] | Author display names |
| `content_type` | string | Content category (e.g., "News", "Clinical") |
| `categories` | string[] | Taxonomy categories |
| `tags` | string[] | SEO tags |
| `image` | string | Featured image URL |
| `publisher` | string | Publication/site name |

**Discovery headers** (included on all responses):
- `Link: <https://www.medicaleconomics.com/llms.txt>; rel="llms"` — RFC 8288 link to this file
- `X-Llms-Txt: https://www.medicaleconomics.com/llms.txt` — Explicit discovery header

## Usage Policy

- Robots policy: [https://www.medicaleconomics.com/robots.txt](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/robots.txt)
- Cache behavior: responses are cached for ~5 minutes (max-age=300, stale-while-revalidate=329)
- Rate guidance: prefer RSS and sitemap feeds over crawling individual pages
- Attribution: All content © MJH Life Sciences. Include source URLs when citing.

## Content Categories

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- [Around the Practice](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/around-the-practice)
- [Business of Cardiology](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/cardiology)
- [Business of Endocrinology](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/endocrinology)
- [Business of Pediatrics](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/pediatrics)
- [Business of Women's Health](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/womens-health)
- [COVID-19](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/covid19)
- [Cardiovascular Clinical Consult](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/cardiovascular-clinical-consult)
- [Clinical Consult](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/clinical-consult)
- [Conference Featured](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/conference-featured)
- [Diabetes Awareness Month](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/diabetes-awareness-month)
- [Finance and Wealth](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/finance-wealth)
- [Immunization Awareness Month](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/immunization-awareness-month)
- [Implementing the Topcon Ocular Telehealth Platform](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/implementing-the-topcon-ocular-telehealth-platform)
- [Influenza](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/influenza)
- [Lifestyle](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/lifestyle)
- [Medical Economics Pulse](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/medical-economics-pulse)
- [Medical Economics® 100th anniversary](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/100-years)
- [News](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/news)
- [Partner Perspectives](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/partner-perspectives)
- [Patient Retention](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/patient-retention)
- [Physician Report](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/physician-report)
- [Population Health Perspectives](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/population-health-perspectives)
- [Practice Efficiency](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/practice-efficiency)
- [Practice Growth](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/practice-growth)
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- [Video Series](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/video-series)
- [Videos](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/videos)
- [Weight Management](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/obesity)

## Featured Content

- ['You're willing to help the team, but only for so long': What rural physicians need to stay](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/you-re-willing-to-help-the-team-but-only-for-so-long-what-rural-physicians-need-to-stay): Rural docs say they need help as 'adequate' physician presence becomes the exception, not the norm.
- [Why health plans should rethink GLP-1 coverage](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/why-health-plans-should-rethink-glp-1-coverage): Prior authorization, step therapy and shifting coverage rules keep patients from obesity drugs with proven benefits, an endocrinologist argues — and t...
- [What’s hiding in your waiting room air, and what to do about it](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/what-s-hiding-in-your-waiting-room-air-and-what-to-do-about-it): Six questions primary care physicians should ask about indoor air quality in their practices.
- [‘Growth is not access’ — NP growth is surging, but is it helping primary care?](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/growth-is-not-access-np-growth-is-surging-but-is-it-helping-primary-care): Milbank Memorial Fund finds uneven training standards, workforce tracking for nurse practitioners.
- [Medicare’s MIPS program: 10 years, 200 hours a year and a 1% tip](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/medicare-s-mips-program-10-years-200-hours-a-year-and-a-1-tip): Excited for the sunset of MIPS? Brace yourself for a replacement, not a repair. Here are four steps to prepare for it.
- [Ahead of midterms, Pennsylvania candidates back NP independence in survey](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/ahead-of-midterms-pennsylvania-candidates-back-np-independence-in-survey): A pre-election candidate survey lands two weeks before CMS sets the next round of rural health awards, which partly score states on nurse practitioner...
- [ACOs are 'the best way to deliver health care,' CMS chief Dr. Oz says](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/acos-are-the-best-way-to-deliver-health-care-cms-chief-dr-oz-says): National Association of ACOs hosts leader at fall conference.
- [Health care costs weigh on voters ahead of the midterms](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/health-care-costs-weigh-on-voters-ahead-of-the-midterms): KFF's pre-election poll found voters trust Democrats over Republicans on health care costs by 20 points, and public support for a single government pl...
- [Most patients spend less than an hour picking a Medicare plan. Their physicians live with the choice all year.](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/most-patients-spend-less-than-an-hour-picking-a-medicare-plan): A new University of Michigan poll finds most older adults barely review their coverage at open enrollment, and the fallout lands in the exam room and...
- [As Medicare’s new ACO model begins, kidney care cannot be left behind](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/as-medicare-s-new-aco-model-begins-kidney-care-cannot-be-left-behind): What happens to kidney care when Medicare’s CKCC model sunsets and LEAD begins?

## Feeds and Indexes

- [RSS Feed](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/rss.xml): Latest articles in XML syndication format
- [Sitemap](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/sitemap.xml): Complete URL index for all published pages
- [News Sitemap](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/sitemap-news.xml): Recent articles optimized for news indexing
- [Authors Directory](https://www.medicaleconomics.com/authors): Browse all contributors and their published work