
CMS is right to go after wasteful spending, but should use AI technology for accountability, not more prior authorizations

CMS is right to go after wasteful spending, but should use AI technology for accountability, not more prior authorizations

Advanced practice providers have moved from stopgap to permanent staff, and physicians are absorbing the change in patient acuity, productivity benchmarks and rural coverage.

The next-generation implantable tibial neuromodulation device treats urgency urinary incontinence, with a limited U.S. launch planned for the fourth quarter of 2026.

WalletHub ranked all 50 states and the District of Columbia on 44 measures of cost, access and outcomes.


Just 49% of adults can now consistently afford needed care and medications

New Aflac survey data land as ChatGPT Health, Claude for Healthcare and Amazon's Health AI reach consumers at scale.

Selecting a financial advisor is a lot like choosing a physician.

The 510(k)-cleared, CE-marked laptop systems bring AI-powered imaging and workflow tools to point-of-care settings outside traditional imaging departments

WalletHub ranked all 50 states and the District of Columbia on 44 measures of cost, access and outcomes.


A Peterson Health Technology Institute report warns that today's payment models could turn clinical AI into either a lower-cost care solution — or a new driver of health care inflation.

Structural financial incentives explain why value-based care has stalled — even as new data and payer-provider strategies show where the model is already working.

Medicare is requesting information, including physician commentary, on primary care and MAHA.

The procedure at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania used a faster, more maneuverable version of the company's vCLAS Ultra-Low Temperature Ablation system to treat a patient whose ventricular tachycardia had resisted radiofrequency and alcohol ablation.

Michigan pediatrician explains what physicians need to watch for in patients

Nearly half of health care organizations say patient access improved this year. Fewer than one in five patients agree. Experian Health's chief operating officer explains what practices are measuring that patients are not, and why a missing cost estimate now keeps patients out of the exam room entirely.

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Physicians drive savings, but AI could reward the intermediaries controlling ACOs.

A simple gap between income and savings can reveal the true retirement number, and it's usually bigger than families expect.

The 13-10 vote sends Trump's third CDC pick to the full Senate, where a confirmation vote may not come until September.

Artificial intelligence (AI) scribes have been a great tool for physicians, but they are also creating uncharted legal territory when it comes to malpractice.

Clinics and physician practices accounted for almost 30% of health care Chapter 11 filings in the first half of 2026, the one subsector climbing while the rest trended flat or down, according to a new Gibbins Advisors report.

A pediatrician at the center of the country's largest cyclospora outbreak on why the official case counts are almost certainly too low, and what most labs aren't looking for.


2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule at heart of Primary Care Collaborative discussion

Two 510(k) clearances expand the synthetic bone graft's indications to include pediatric and tumor-related spinal fusion cases.

Gary Jacobs argues the payment system is what makes small practices unsustainable, and that the physicians who wait it out usually end up selling to a hospital rather than choosing their own exit.

A national survey of 465 direct primary care physicians upends the $77-per-month benchmark and much of what the model was assumed to look like.