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The nation's looming shortage of primary care physicians has been well-documented and much-debated, but what about a shortage of physician assistants in primary care?

Increasing patient involvement in medical care decision-making is a worthy objective, but a new study reveals that physicians may be spread too thin to make that goal a reality.

The government’s healthcare fraud prevention and enforcement efforts led to charges or convictions of providers and others and also removed almost 150,000 providers from Medicare's billing system, according to a new report from the federal government.

Alan Sager, PhD, dicusses with Medical Economics Editor-in-Chief Lois A. Bowers, MA, the current primary care crisis and whether accountable care organizations will provide any relief.

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Medicare will pay primary care physicians for care coordination.

Slowing growth of spending on healthcare services by $2 trillion from 2014 to 2023 could be possible through a set of strategic policies.

Plenty of stories exist about horrible EHR implementation, and you might be especially worried if you run a small practice. Learn how to successfully implement a new system in a small practice setting.

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Legislation aimed at eliminating the Independent Payment Advisory Board has garnered strong praise from the American Medical Association.

Medical Economics readers argue that the fixes to primary care are already too late; that Newtown, Connecticut, should focus more on the human element than guns; and that doctors that insurance brokers want what's best for both the client and the agent.

Health information technology advances have failed to save the healthcare industry money because the current systems are too disconnected and difficult to use, according to a new report from Rand Corp.

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With the ICD-10 deadline looming, will physician groups actually be able to keep implementation from happening?

You only have until this Tuesday-February 12-to complete the federally mandated Economic Census.

Renewed efforts to eliminate the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula have arisen with the introduction of legislation that would permanently repeal the SGR and reform Medicare payment and delivery systems.

Eligible professionals, including physicians, have until the end of the month to submit any pending Medicare Part B claims from calendar year 2012 under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program.

Under the traditional primary care model, a physician shortage is inevitable. But using new methods such as doctor pooling and diverting as low as 20% of cases to non-physicians could eradicate the shortage completely, a new study claims.

Family physicians surpass specialists and other office-based physician on EHR adoption rates, according to a new report.

Whether or not physicians are comfortable with moving their practices into the virtual realm, more and more patients are moving in that direction, and some say digital communication may even improve their level of honesty with their doctors.

Only 11 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws or issued regulations to implement the Affordable Care Act’s major health insurance market reforms that go into effect in 2014, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.

Data collection will begin this August, with reporting to begin in September 2014 for a new rule aimed at increasing financial transparency in the healthcare industry, says the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Twenty percent of healthcare providers using a proprietary electronic health record system reported that doing so helped save the life of one or more patients, according to a recent nationwide survey.

Younger adults are frequenting retail and work-based clinics because of the convenience and accessibility they offer, according to a new poll.

Primary care physicians (PCP) provide better diabetes care than other providers, according to a new study performed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Hospitals around the country have been buying up independent medical practices at a dizzying rate. Because this acquisition trend directly affects your financial well-being, it’s crucial to understand the forces driving it.

Nearly 40 national physician groups are calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) to quash the implementation of ICD-10 for outpatient diagnosis and coding.

The integration of small practices into hospital systems could improve clinical quality and technologic efforts, says Robert I. Field, PhD, MPH, JD, in a conversation with Medical Economics Editor-in-Chief Lois A. Bowers, MA.

Making a mistake can be difficult for a physician to handle, but we can learn from them to become better.