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Your older patients with low health literacy are likely to be in worse health and face a higher risk of death, concludes a new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service?s (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

If you?re seeing fewer patients, it might be because the high costs of health insurance and healthcare are causing more Americans to go without care, according to a new study.

Learn alternatives to IRAs to invest for retirement.

Medical malpractice reform, also called tort reform, needs to be on the front burner of healthcare reform.

Get necessary details on how to sell a solo practice.

Physicians traditionally have allowed insurance companies to dictate the terms of their contracts.

An effective growth strategy for your medical practice should begin with a comprehensive review of the practice's business plan.

Determine how to be appropriately compensated for combination of services provided.

A doctor's sick note always has been regarded as a serious document.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission urged lawmakers to boost physician pay by 1% in 2012, despite a rate cut set to take effect the same year.

Know how to protect your financials from a malpractice lawsuit.

A spree of specialty- and hospital-based practice acquisitions in 2010 by national corporations such as IPC and Mednax may have some physicians wondering whether the days of publicly traded practice management companies, similar to those in the 1980s and 1990s, will return.

Going cash-only in your practice means getting out of the insurance-billing business and collecting from patients.

Stress is a constant presence in the workplace and never more than in economic times such as these.

In a physician practice, front-office staff members are often treated as the least necessary employees. These employees, however, meet and greet patients, schedule their visits, collect co-payments, and field phone calls.

For the second year in a row, the number of U.S. medical school seniors who will train as family medicine residents has increased, according to results released by the National Resident Matching Program.

Insurance paperwork and patients who don't follow instructions lead the list of your frustrations, according to a new survey.

Know whether it is permissible through HIPAA to keep copies of patients' records.

Primary care practices wishing to become a patient-centered medical home face a growing number of organizations offering accreditation, each with its own set of standards and guidelines.

Practicing medicine, as any other job in the field, can become boring. Worse yet, it can lead to burnout.

Have you considered using scientific principles to improve the financial position of your practice?

Learn how to handle patients who run up large balances and then switch physicians.

Letters discuss patients' cell phone usage and malpractice.

A program in which clinicians and hospitals respond to an adverse event with facts, an appropriate apology, and timely and fair financial compensation if warranted, is a viable but uncommon tactic used in efforts to reduce healthcare costs in Massachusetts, according to a new study.

Median compensation for primary care physician faculty at academic practices in 2010 increased 3.47% since 2009, according to results of an MGMA survey.

The author is reminded almost daily why he can be grateful for the job he has as well as its ample compensation.

If you want your practice to reap benefits from electronic health records (EHRs), computerized provider order entry, and clinical decision-support systems, it?ll take strong leadership and staff ?buy-in.? So conclude researchers from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (HIT) after reviewing 154 recent studies on the topic.

You and your patients have a new non-government resource for information related to the Affordable Care Act, thanks to a new Web site launched by a coalition that includes the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association, and five other organizations.