Practice Management

Sports agent Leigh Steinberg, co-founder of physician branding agency MD Envoy, explains how doctors can turn their expertise into a public platform without jeopardizing their medical career.

Benefit design is quietly undermining primary care. How can doctors fight it?

Physicians have been quick to adopt AI scribes. Here’s how to integrate them the right way.

Health care economist Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., argues that two decades of inflation-eroded Medicare payment, not corporate ownership or management services organizations, is what is pushing independent practices to sell.

A new global survey finds up to a third of patients never start prescribed treatment, and the gaps aren't about access — they're about a healthcare model still designed around the doctor's office as the front door.

Overhead swallows roughly 60% of the typical practice's revenue, and most of it sits in a few line items. These nine moves pull real money off that number without touching the exam room — and the biggest lever is the one most owners are slowest to open.

New survey data shows why real-time support — not personalization or speed — is what actually keeps members loyal to their health plan

A new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds most voters believe Medicare and Medicaid fraud comes from the billing side of care, doctors’ offices and hospital systems, rather than from the patients who receive it.

Perceptions, policies and prices all are factors in the future of direct primary care, advocates say

What physicians need to know to begin considering malpractice liability with new artificial intelligence technology.

New research on whose names AI gives patients searching for care, and why many independents never make the list.

The multicenter study is evaluating whether localized cryotherapy, guided by AI-enabled imaging, can stabilize non-obstructive high-risk plaques before they trigger a heart attack.

CMS wants to cut the conversion factor, rewrite the G2211 add-on into a percentage modifier, halve payment for same-day procedures and put an expiration date on traditional MIPS.

Two physicians and two health system executives got candid with Chief Healthcare Executive about denials, administrative burden and what AI is actually delivering.

As patient demand outpaces staffed beds and workforce growth, early clinical guidance from nurses is emerging as a way to protect physicians, shorten wait times and stabilize access — especially in rural and safety-net communities.

More than 150 recruitment leaders reveal the ownership gaps, execution gaps and untapped tools holding health care back

When patients ask about compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide, practices need a repeatable way to document, triage and react

A dementia expert explains practical screening steps, early warning signs and how to approach the conversation once a diagnosis is made

Private equity buyers analyze an entire market's billing data before making an offer. Site neutrality is about to make that same insight matter for every practice's real estate decisions.

Answers on adapting to shifts in Medicare, with three strategies to implement right now.

New YouGov data rank what patients consider before agreeing to a treatment.

A four-point plan to focus attention on cybersecurity without a complete network overhaul.

Most practices collect less than half of what patients owe. Here's how to change that — in any month of the year.

Tandem Diabetes Care expands its Control-IQ+ automated insulin delivery system to work with Abbott's newest 15-day continuous glucose monitor across the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland and Italy, with Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany slated to follow later this year.

A new national survey finds just 71% of adults under 30 have a primary care physician, and fewer than half of those saw one in the past year.