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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 new global survey finds up to a third of patients never start prescribed treatment, and the gaps aren't about access — they're about a healthcare model still designed around the doctor's office as the front door.

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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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.

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Access, AI and accountable care are part of now and the future, CMS leaders say.

What physicians need to know to begin considering malpractice liability with new artificial intelligence technology.

MultiDimension Technology's TMR1370 draws as little as 30 nanoamps, enabling more than two years of standby operation in continuous glucose monitoring devices.

Most physicians know the direct primary care pitch; whether the economics hold up once you're in it is the more difficult question to answer.

New research on whose names AI gives patients searching for care, and why many independents never make the list.

Health policy veteran and "Zen Lobbyist" author Gary Jacobs argues that the payment system, not the insurers, is behind a second straight year of double-digit ACA premium increases, and that primary care-led risk is the only durable fix.