Practice Management

Cost trends keep outrunning forecasts in recent years. The Business Group on Health survey shows that next year will follow the same trend.

Considering that a family physician's office is often the first—and sometimes only—place where patients discuss mental health concerns, adding such services within a primary care setting makes sense for both the practice and the communities it serves.

Five sources account for much of the information ChatGPT uses to describe a physician, and practices can audit all five and act on most of them without hiring a specialized AI-visibility vendor.

A bipartisan bill would let employers pay $1,200 to cut the 372-day labor certification wait to 30 days, easing one early bottleneck for practices that hire foreign-born staff.

As technology and services advance, practice owners have more options than ever to thrive.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

A new UC Riverside study links dollar store food quality to higher rates of obesity, high blood pressure, increased cholesterol levels and type 2 diabetes.

Retrospective data are not irrelevant, but primary care needs AI and advanced analytics to treat real-world patients in real time.

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Here’s how AI hallucinations are creating a patient safety problem no one is talking about.

AMA says new guidance from CMS closed gaps documented in health plans' public prior authorization disclosures, but the work isn't finished.

Inovalon surveyed more than 370 revenue cycle leaders in February 2026 about how prior authorization actually runs inside their organizations. The numbers say the process has barely modernized.

A physician recruitment leader discusses what keeps doctors working happily in practices and health care organizations.

When ChatGPT names an independent practice, the words describing it usually come from sources the practice doesn’t control.

The BP Go device measures blood pressure through the finger instead of a traditional arm cuff, and Wellvii says the clearance supports its push into remote patient monitoring.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

A third straight year of survey data shows patient standards transforming into hard filters — and increasingly, it's AI doing the filtering.

The clinical data to identify mismatched coverage — and fix it before it becomes bad debt — is already sitting in your EHR.

A physician forecasts the effects of artificial intelligence as Medicare sets new rules starting next year.

Three in four patients now refuse to book with a provider rated below 4 stars

The order sorts childhood immunizations into three categories, calls for separate visits and points the attorney general at state exemption laws.

Patients read normalizing language as a signal that treatment isn't recommended, new research finds.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

Physicians head into this back-to-school season with more than one immunization schedule in circulation, rising exemption rates and new counseling codes that payers are covering unevenly.

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