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Primary care physicians (PCP) see patients for a wide variety of reasons, but according to a recent study, there’s one category that stands out above the rest-behavioral health.

The opioid epidemic is exacting a lethal toll on the country. We must redouble and accelerate efforts to slow-and hopefully reverse-the current opioid epidemic.

There has been much discord as to the proper role of government in healthcare.

Proposed Trusted Exchange Framework aims to make sharing healthcare data a clearer reality.

Price transparency and sales funnels-what do these have in common?

Why do doctors feel they need to stay on the job when ill?

In between the headache that is healthcare for physicians these days, Medical Economics has tried to insert some laughter into the crazy and hectic lives of our readers through our Funny Bone Comics. Click through to see which cartoons you got the most joy and laughs from this past year.

Many physicians are relieved to see 2017 come to an end.

Read on to find out how EHRs have been affecting physicians this year.

Patients with HIV report having little involvement in their care decisions, but many also report feeling too poorly educated about the options to want the choice.

Read on to find out how uncompensated tasks have been affecting physicians.

Readers’ top tips for making the most out of a busy practice day.

Read on to find out how physicians have been struggling to deal with payers this year.

While some third-world nations are making great strides, recent reports suggest massive funding efforts are yielding small results in other parts of the world.

Declining numbers of physicians are entering infectious disease care, but patients with HIV are living longer. A new report proposes a different kind of training track.

In all aspects of healthcare, we must be able to listen to, and keep confidential, anything that a patient shares, in whatever form it comes. By the same token, we must be able to communicate frankly and openly with patients conveying the necessary message.

Read on to find out how physicians have been battling quality measures this year.

No matter the profession, everyone wishes they could go back in time and provide sage wisdom to their younger selves to help ease the path that awaits them.

Many patients with HIV experience interruptions in care at some point in their disease.

Two new reports investigate the impact of behaviors and comorbidities and how they affect health outcomes in HIV patients.

To get ready, we are teasing each challenge and how it has affected the healthcare industry. Read on to find out how physicians have been struggling to manage patient satisfaction, and lack thereof, this year.

HIV/AIDS management has come a long way, but there is still work to do to support patients with what is now a chronic disease.

Antiretrovirals have done a good job in halting the progression of HIV to AIDS, but new gene editing technologies could result in a cure.

We are teasing each challenge and how it has affected the healthcare industry. Read on to find out how physicians have been struggling this year to remain independent in the face of value-based care initiatives

I was recently inspired by another article in Medical Economics, and curiously, have a solution for each legitimate gripe, based on decades of sorting through the combatants in this health-care disaster we’re engaged in on a daily basis.

For the fifth consecutive year, Medical Economics will reveal its list of obstacles physicians say they face in the coming year and, more importantly, how to overcome them. As we did last year, we asked readers to tell us what challenges they face each day and where they need solutions.

"They are called 'Next Gen' ACOs because ti will take a generation before they finally figure it all out."

Tips for physicians to address high blood pressure, meet value-based care targets