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Making a cultural shift in terms of patient payments and bad debt isn’t easy, but it helps both those giving and receiving care. 

Keep these tips in mind when documenting and billing for venipuncture.

While physicians may prefer to focus their attention on patient care, it’s imperative to carefully analyze expenses and calculate how every business decision can affect overall profitability.

Frequent use of social media is common, but it can cause some problems in a medical practice setting.

To payers, these visits tell a completely different story about the work that’s required to treat a patient.

The patient should see a friend in his doctor, not a stranger with a white coat and a stethoscope.

Helping others with their health and nutrition is a logical task for physicians. Here’s how to get started as a wellness coach.

It’s not all about compensation for those fresh out of residency. Here’s what they are looking for.

Input from our "Your Voice" letters to the editor. Here, a letter on the ACA.

A therapy that uses the immune system to fight cancer has been 97% effective in mice and is moving to human trials.

Internists urge focus on non-medical factors to truly drive patient improvement, promote health equity.

With a little planning and forethought, EHRs can actually improve doctor-patient communication and cause both parties to see them as a valuable tool for improving care.

One physician offers advice to peers to make value-based care work at private practices, and perhaps even see financial gains.

Medical school enrollment has traditionally been dominated by men-until now.

One doc's perspective on how the White House has done when it comes to fixing healthcare.

ChangeMaker Ira Rubin, MD, and his son, Zachary, discuss the value of reaching out to young people interested in medicine to make today’s students tomorrow’s physicians.

In this podcast, Dr. Forrest highlights the failures he has experienced over the years since starting a DPC practice, and explains how other physicians can learn from his mistakes.

Because of his vast knowledge of the novel practice model, we asked Brian Forrest, MD to give us his best advice for physicians who are wanting to start their own DPC practice and be successful

CMS announces a commitment to give patients control of their records.

Perils of Replacing Physicians with Non-Physician Providers, Part 2

Pamela Wible, MD, has dedicated herself to raising awareness about this issue and changing the conditions that lead so many physicians to take their own lives. Here's what Wible says physicians can do about the suicide issue to help themselves and others.

Medical Economics recently spoke with Peter Goldbach, MD, chief medical officer with Health Dialog, a provider of population health management services, on the importance of shared decision-making in medical care and improving patient outcomes.

For 2018, there are changes to the requirements of CPC+. I will focus on the CPC+ electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs).

A look at how Medicare is reforming primary care payment.

Within the past decade, over 165,000 mobile health apps have launched, with thousands more on the way.

Choosing the option of completing the Advancing Care Information (ACI) section of Medicare's Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) offers physicians one clear path through the complex thicket of guidelines that define the program.

The economy is going gangbusters. According to an American Medical Association report, that's due in part to the healthcare industry.

Bob Doherty of the ACP breaks down the major healthcare implications of the government's funding plan.