Practice Finance

CMS chief says outcomes-based pay can help patients while finally ending physicians' box-checking frustration.

Revenue per patient is a common way to split practice profit. It’s also the wrong way.

MGMA’s 100th-anniversary conference runs Sept. 27-30 in San Antonio, and these 10 sessions put physician contracts, compensation and legal exposure on the table.

Private insurance helps patients get care, but does not cover all costs, according to study by The Commonwealth Fund

U.S. health care has a patient loyalty problem hiding in plain sight, says a new report based on a survey of 10,000 consumers.

Reactions from five leading organizations were among thousands of public comments on the draft document.

Independent practices don't need more billing staff — they need better workflows before the claim is ever filed.

Physician groups back ACCESS Model but warn CMS against care fragmentation

Top HHS leaders introduce ACCESS model with discussions of patient health, costs and technology.

New national research shows health systems and health plans still can't get provider data right — and the fallout lands squarely on physician practices

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.

The Pay PCPs Act of 2026 would blend prospective per-patient payments with fee-for-service, halve beneficiary cost sharing for primary care and exempt participating physicians from MIPS.

WalletHub scored all 50 states and Washington, D.C., on 16 vaccination metrics. The bottom 10 holds the state with the highest kindergarten exemption rate in the country, and one whose kindergarten coverage is among the highest anywhere.

WalletHub scored all 50 states and Washington, D.C., on 16 vaccination metrics.

As more payors adopt automatic E/M downcoding policies, practices that skip payment validation risk leaving significant revenue on the table.

Emergency department self-pay visits rose from 5.5% to 7.6% of encounters, the steepest of four care settings tracked, while Medicaid's share declined across the board, according to Epic Research

There a six recurring errors that leave independent practices financing equipment on terms mismatched to how they actually get paid.

AAFP issued its fall COVID-19, flu and RSV recommendations Wednesday, saying it coordinated with three other societies, while the coverage rules, counseling pay and registry logic behind them have not caught up.

A Hint Health whitepaper says direct primary care's longer visits make it the natural home for lifestyle medicine. Nearly half of practices surveyed have panels under 200.

Peterson Health Technology Institute's Caroline Pearson explains why payment models — not the technology itself — will decide whether AI lowers costs for physicians and patients.

Concierge and direct primary care sites grew 83.1% in five years, and direct primary care starts 2026 with a federal tax break it did not have before.

Payment models should reflect not just the theoretical value of services rendered, but the practical realities of how healthcare is financed and paid for today.

Big groups clean up in independent dispute resolution, but little, if any, goes to primary care.

Dolly Parton, who died Aug. 25, 2026, at 80, funded research at Vanderbilt, a women's health center in her home county and the Knoxville children's hospital that bears her name.

Two-thirds of physicians expect AI fluency to boost their earnings, according to Doximity's 2026 physician compensation report. Liability, reimbursement and a contested new JAMA paper all sit between that expectation and a bigger paycheck.