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Medicare is requesting information, including physician commentary, on primary care and MAHA.

‘Transparency is now the norm’ as Leapfrog Group logs data for more than 6,000 facilities nationwide.

A pediatrician offers advice on diagnosing the illness and discussing it with patients.

Benefit design is quietly undermining primary care. How can doctors fight it?

Health care economist Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., argues that two decades of inflation-eroded Medicare payment, not corporate ownership or management services organizations, is what is pushing independent practices to sell.

A surgeon and biotech leader discusses the role of primary care doctors in wound care.

A framework published in npj Digital Medicine ranks patient care and staff experience alongside price, and says a health system that cannot score a tool across all five domains may not be ready to buy it.

New survey data shows why real-time support — not personalization or speed — is what actually keeps members loyal to their health plan

Greater availability of the blockbuster drugs does not mean every older patient should get them.

Two physicians and two health system executives got candid with Chief Healthcare Executive about denials, administrative burden and what AI is actually delivering.

As patient demand outpaces staffed beds and workforce growth, early clinical guidance from nurses is emerging as a way to protect physicians, shorten wait times and stabilize access — especially in rural and safety-net communities.

Patient demand is high, but distinctions are fuzzy about compounded GLP-1s. Primary care physicians can help

Physicians in eight specialties now clear $500,000 a year, and the distance between the top earners and primary care keeps growing.

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

Your health care artificial intelligence is only as good as the data behind it. Here's how to get that right.

A four-point plan to focus attention on cybersecurity without a complete network overhaul.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

A new national survey finds just 71% of adults under 30 have a primary care physician, and fewer than half of those saw one in the past year.

Could a simple blood test transform how we diagnose Alzheimer's disease? A primer on what primary care physicians should know about blood-based biomarkers right now

CliniComp's Sandra Johnson says cost and vendor unwillingness — not technology — are now the biggest barriers to data exchange

Urban Institute data show 46% of adults aged 18 to 64 faced unmet care needs, unpaid medical bills or medical debt, with even insured families hit hard

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

Many physicians assume their health insurance follows them wherever they go. In reality, gaps can create significant financial and medical risks.

A new survey of physicians, nurses and health care leaders points to burnout, reimbursement uncertainty and the pace of AI adoption as the top threats to the system, even as national data show physician burnout easing.

Rising costs are forcing employers into tough decisions about coverage — and the numbers may shift again by 2027.