
LEADing with capitation: Can CMS save primary care with predictable payments per patient?
Physicians have questions about capitation. Here's what it means for your practice

Physicians have questions about capitation. Here's what it means for your practice

The deal gives surgeons a new registration option for AR navigation, potentially expanding access for regional hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.

A 2024 policy shift is forcing practices to wait on claims adjudication before billing — and the delay is eroding collections and straining independent practices

Organizations that recognize similarities to EHR and other previous transformations may be better positioned to move beyond experimentation and achieve value from their AI investments.

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The order sorts childhood immunizations into three categories, calls for separate visits and points the attorney general at state exemption laws.

Beyond the MMR split, the order presses states to adopt a narrower vaccine list and directs the attorney general to challenge exemption limits.

Patients read normalizing language as a signal that treatment isn't recommended, new research finds.

Staffing at medical practices has become one of the biggest challenges they face. Dina Taylor explains why.

What happens when the CDC steps back from outbreak surveillance? We’re seeing it in real time, a doctor says

The preferred portfolio deal covers 3D mapping, intracardiac imaging, and both radiofrequency and pulsed field ablation technologies to expand outpatient arrhythmia care.

Shawntea Gordon of Atlas & Perpetua Healthcare Consulting says the cost most practices cut first is usually the one that was never the problem.

AAFP President Sarah C. Nosal, M.D., says family physicians should work from the academy's vaccine schedule, and that the counseling it takes to explain it is time practices aren't paid for.

What would you wish for?

What clinicians should ask before trusting artificial intelligence with medication decisions

With small cuts, targeted gains and revision of the G2211 code, here’s what CMS' proposed 2027 PFS means for your bottom line

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Physicians head into this back-to-school season with more than one immunization schedule in circulation, rising exemption rates and new counseling codes that payers are covering unevenly.

As the outbreak continues, here’s what physicians need to know about diagnosing cyclosporiasis this summer

Joanne Frederick of Government Market Strategies argues the fix for runaway health care costs turned out worse than the problem it solved.

The top news stories in medicine today.

The 51-44 vote ends a yearlong vacancy atop one of the nation's top health agencies.

A physician's FAQ guide to Medicare's visit-complexity add-on code

Enterprise risk management is no longer optional for health systems — and smaller practices can build a program too, one step at a time.

CMS is right to go after wasteful spending, but should use AI technology for accountability, not more prior authorizations

Advanced practice providers have moved from stopgap to permanent staff, and physicians are absorbing the change in patient acuity, productivity benchmarks and rural coverage.

The next-generation implantable tibial neuromodulation device treats urgency urinary incontinence, with a limited U.S. launch planned for the fourth quarter of 2026.

WalletHub ranked all 50 states and the District of Columbia on 44 measures of cost, access and outcomes.


Just 49% of adults can now consistently afford needed care and medications