From a same-day payment cut to AI-run prior authorization in traditional Medicare, MGMA's government affairs team laid out what Washington has in store for physicians next year.

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.

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.

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

A multinational survey of more than 1,900 patients with type 2 diabetes or obesity, presented at the EADV Congress 2026, found nail and scalp changes that weight loss alone did not appear to explain.