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Four primary care physician membership organizations issued a set of principles for Accountable Care Organizations, where a group of healthcare professionals accept a shared responsibility to deliver a broad set of medical services to a defined set of patients across the age spectrum and are held accountable for the quality and cost of care provided through alignment of incentives.

Determine whether to roll over a 401(k) or leave it be.

Discover ways to finance for a new office in your practice.

Consider best approaches to enhancing call coverage.

Experience with certain patients inevitably become retained as "teaching points," both positive and negative, to be tucked away for use in future patient care.

One physician and his physician wife made a pledge early in their careers that they would not treat family members.

Learn of new PECOS regulations to ensure reimbursement in 2011.

As an increasing number of physicians migrate to electronic health records to replace their paper charts, concerns have been growing about the possibility of information being wiped out or no longer accessible.

Adding pharmacists to the primary care team in the office may help patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes better manage associated risks, according to a new study.

Learn how to stay up with the competition that retail clinics offer to consumers.

Being diagnosed with sarcoidosis changes physician's perspective on practice of medicine.

Understand the difference between load and no-load mutual funds.

"Wow, that was easy!" How wonderful it would be if you could utter those words once your transition to electronic health records was complete.

What specialty in medicine compromises the quality of its work based on its model of care? The author of this article points to primary care.

Congress voted in late November to halt a 23% payment cut that was to take effect this month to physicians who accept Medicare.

More than 6 million New York residents will have access to Web camera or telephone physician encounters, according to BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and American Well.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a division last month charged with testing "new ways of delivering healthcare and paying healthcare providers that can save money for Medicare and Medicaid while improving quality of care," including the patient-centered medical homes, according to CMS.

One-third of 272 hospitals and practices surveyed that use an electronic health record system reported at least 1 known case of medical identity theft at their organization, according to results from HIMSS.

Gain understanding of what is involved in gifting of stocks.

This physician had plans to join a large group practice where all he had to do was show up, see patients, and take home a paycheck, or so he thought. Life has a funny way of changing your plans.

Letters discuss board certification and electronic health records.

When the author reflects on special holiday cards he has received over the years, images of his patients come to life.

Review 10 of the latest devices in Medical Economics' annual list of new technology products for practice.

Older Americans are less healthy than their English counterparts, but they live as long or even longer than their English peers, according to a study released by the RAND Corporation and the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London.

Know how to determine tax basis on inherited stocks

Find out how to keep an employee even if you're unable to pay more in compensation.

Is it possible to sell just one-third of your practice to an associate?

There is an emerging concept in medicine of a health coach who serves as an integral part of a medical practice.