The top news stories in medicine this week.

Medical Economics spoke with MGMA's Madison Hynes about the association's draft bill to ban automatic downcoding, the Patients First Act and AI-run prior authorization in traditional Medicare.

CMS' proposed cuts to physician fees focus on the operating room. For the primary care physicians managing recovery after surgery, the real gap is much larger.

From AI scribes and coding habits to the claims payers quietly cut, these are the lessons physicians can take from four days of sessions and interviews at the Medical Group Management Association's centennial meeting.

Coding scrutiny, payment gaps and a push for price caps show up across Trilliant Health's annual look at where U.S. health care is headed.

Trilliant Health's annual trends report traces primary care shortages, payment gaps and looming price caps to incentives no single stakeholder has reason to fix.

Nolla Health claims it has the nation’s first approval for artificial intelligence to issue initial prescriptions. Physician review comes later.

HHS finalizes price transparency updates as employers push insurance vendors to open the books.