The top news stories in medicine this week.

Physicians have embraced ambient documentation faster than almost any technology before it. But every note it writes carries your signature, and lawyers, auditors and patients are starting to read those notes closely.

The Kirksville center's grant arrives weeks before maternity care billing splits into separate services Jan. 1.

Maternity care's global billing package ends Jan. 1, and employed OB/GYNs paid on productivity could feel it first.

A critical flaw in the code behind most websites and a breach at one of the nation's largest lab companies landed in the same week. Here's what physicians should check, ask and tell patients now.

If Medicare cuts surgeon pay, it does not follow that Medicare should also cut reimbursement for primary care.

HFMA proposes ‘Declaration on Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability’ as physicians and patients feel the squeeze.

Prescription abandonment climbs sharply as out-of-pocket costs rise, and prior authorization delays push more patients away. Showing cost and coverage at the point of prescribing could change whether patients ever start therapy.