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A pediatrician offers advice on diagnosing the illness and discussing it with patients.

Now is the time to rethink point-of-care engagement in electronic health records

Another conversion factor cut is on the table for 2027, and MGMA's Anders Gilberg breaks down why budget neutrality keeps forcing cuts in one specialty to pay for another and what the end of MIPS means for physicians.

The 510(k) clearance enables the ION-L Lumbar Facet Fixation System to work with Medtronic's StealthStation platform, adding navigation compatibility to a zero-profile fixation device.

Sports agent Leigh Steinberg, co-founder of physician branding agency MD Envoy, explains how doctors can turn their expertise into a public platform without jeopardizing their medical career.

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Benefit design is quietly undermining primary care. How can doctors fight it?

Physicians have been quick to adopt AI scribes. Here’s how to integrate them the right way.

Health care economist Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., argues that two decades of inflation-eroded Medicare payment, not corporate ownership or management services organizations, is what is pushing independent practices to sell.

A surgeon and biotech leader discusses the role of primary care doctors in wound care.

Ambulatory Surgery Center Association analyzes financial effects in a growing part of U.S. health care.

Why value-based care requires AI that tells clinicians not just who is at risk, but which interventions are most likely to change outcomes.

Female physicians leave clinical practice at a median age of 49, compared with age 64 for their male colleagues, and the practice patterns patients value most may be part of what drives them out.

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The collaborations pair Karl Storz's 3D visualization and OR integration technology with Moon Surgical's AI-native Maestro platform and Sovato's remote surgery capabilities, launching first in the U.S. ahead of a global rollout.

A framework published in npj Digital Medicine ranks patient care and staff experience alongside price, and says a health system that cannot score a tool across all five domains may not be ready to buy it.

Health care fraud, new payment models and AI are all in play in evolution of accountable care

Overhead swallows roughly 60% of the typical practice's revenue, and most of it sits in a few line items. These nine moves pull real money off that number without touching the exam room — and the biggest lever is the one most owners are slowest to open.

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RFK Jr. says California and Minnesota have to prove the legitimacy of claims before the money flows.

Health care economist Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., makes the case that fixing Medicare payment, not restricting MSOs, is the way to keep independent practices open.

New survey data shows why real-time support — not personalization or speed — is what actually keeps members loyal to their health plan

We don't treat that here

A new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds most voters believe Medicare and Medicaid fraud comes from the billing side of care, doctors’ offices and hospital systems, rather than from the patients who receive it.

Perceptions, policies and prices all are factors in the future of direct primary care, advocates say

The 2026 Medicare Advantage raise is a pause, not a trend. When rates tighten in 2027, these basics will separate a shared savings check from a shortfall.

Gentherm's ThermAffyx Patient Safety System integrates active warming with anti-slip securement in a single Class II platform, targeting hypothermia risk during the more than 3 million robotic-assisted procedures performed worldwide each year.

The top news stories in medicine today.