How long before every doctor has an artificial intelligence stunt double?

At an MGMA Government Affairs town hall, attendees raised extrapolated audits, employer plans beyond state reach and denials with no reason codes.

A fallback version would make insurers prove upcoding, notify physicians and limit downcoding to 90 days.

Acting chief executive Akash Madiah credited practice leaders for outcomes patients never see, and the session's emcee offered a patient's account of two years of doctor visits.

Four forces created the perfect storm to sink physician-owned medicine. There are policies that could help keep it afloat.

Cash payments for GLP-1s are on the rise, according to pharmacists surveyed by Buzz Health.

Patients who received weekly plant-based grocery packages from a primary care clinic's food pantry for an average of 2.7 years saw dose-dependent drops in diastolic blood pressure, weight and BMI, but no significant change in hemoglobin A1c, a Mass General Brigham study found.

Medical Economics spoke with health care attorney Tatiana Melnik, J.D., about vendor contracts, patient consent and the malpractice questions physicians could face next.