Coding and Documentation

Generic, template-style language from ambient AI tools is triggering payer scrutiny under CMS's G2211 rules.

CMS added 190 new diagnosis codes for fiscal 2027 — here's how to tell which ones affect your practice before they take effect.

In a University of Toronto simulation, AI scribes cut documentation from 36.3% of each primary care visit to 11.2%, though total visit length didn’t change significantly.

Federal contracts, Medicare pilots and new state laws have pushed artificial intelligence from the edges of clinical practice into the middle of it.

A U.K. review of 27 papers found the evidence on ambient scribe risks thinner than the American adoption curve.

An HHS video sent patients to a Medicare comment docket that has already drawn more than 19,000 submissions.

The draft 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule opens five questions about the AMA's control of CPT codes, from licensing costs to who decides what a code is worth.

Why did Medicare risk adjustment become little more than mining charts, checking boxes and gaming the system?

What's written at the point of referral affects how that record holds up later. Here’s what primary care physicians need to know.

The latest HHS-OIG findings spur audits in real time around vascular procedures — and primary care could be involved.

The phased changes end value-based pay on incident-to claims and require many clinicians to bill under their own NPI.

Here’s how to get paid more for managing patient complex conditions over time.

Medicare’s G2211 code has a critical design flaw by applying a primary care fix to specialty care

The new 10-year mix of tech, chronic condition management and primary care launches in July.

Both ends of the coding spectrum carry real financial and compliance risk. Structured self-audits are the only way to know where your practice actually stands

Payers quietly downcode claims and underpay physicians. Here are eight revenue leaks to catch before they cut your pay.

Here are 26 coding and documentation tips to save your practice time and money.

Atlas MD co-founder Josh Umbehr, M.D., who has been in direct primary care practice since 2010, explains why he thinks the model is closer to mainstream than most physicians realize.

Health plans are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, but inaccurate provider data create reimbursement friction and avoidable strain on primary care practices

Primary care physicians are drowning in data. Transparent artificial intelligence can synthesize complex biomarkers to give them their time back.

Concrete habits that help primary care physicians close charts in the room, not at 9 p.m.

A Medical Economics and Physicians Practice flash poll, sponsored by Heidi, found physicians split on AI, even as 70% are using or evaluating AI scribes in their practices.

How to take advantage of an underutilized revenue and care quality opportunity hiding in plain sight.

Medicare Advantage accounts for three of the top five administrative burdens facing medical groups, and nearly 95% of practices say the regulatory load has grown over the past three years, according to MGMA's 2026 Regulatory Burden Report.

Physicians who signed on during implementation and never revisited their plan may be paying for tools they've never opened.