September 23rd 2025
From Rhode Island to California, states are experimenting with ways to funnel more money into primary care, though it’s uncertain whether those investments can rein in overall health costs.
September 19th 2025
Health Care Cost Institute analysis highlights shrinking investment, wide state variation and sharper rural reliance on primary care.
September 17th 2025
Uncertainty builds among physicians, patients, insurers as medical groups try to fill leadership gap on vaccines.
The Doctors Company warns economic and social inflation are driving higher malpractice costs, fueled by large verdicts and litigation financing.
Physicians Foundation tallies responses about emotional health, workplace stressors.
OIG RPM data show compliance, outline enforcement priorities
CMS is at a decision point: How to improve regulation while maintaining access
FDA targets misleading drug ads, non-opioid pain meds in new policies
RFK says ‘pharmaceutical ads hooked this country on prescription drugs,’ so a crackdown is coming.
In defense of private equity in health care, mostly
Private equity’s growing role in health care has drawn fierce criticism, yet the evidence of harm remains mixed and far from conclusive.
Could a doctor draft improve physician leadership, research, and U.S. health care?
A Nobel Prize-winning physician looks to Vietnam Era for lessons to boost contemporary medicine.
Make Our Children Healthy Again: MAHA Commission releases strategic plan
HHS Secretary Kennedy, Ag Secretary Rollins roll out action steps for national initiative on health.
Medical research must change culture to support innovation, young physicians, NIH director says
Bhattacharya outlines his philosophy of research for National Academy of Medicine.
California Medical Association starts administrative management company for independent physicians
MedWay completes its first quarter serving independent doctors’ offices and physician-led health centers.
RFK to medical schools: It’s time to ramp up nutrition training for physicians
‘Medical schools talk about nutrition but fail to teach it,’ per HHS, Department of Education.
Are doctors and patients knowledgeable enough to discern fact from fiction in modern medicine?
Findings by The Physicians Foundation point to an epidemic of medical misinformation and disinformation in the United States.
Why ICD-10 needs modernization
Rapid technology advancements is creating gaps ICD-10 codes can’t fill
‘It's just very humbling’ — New AOA president discusses his background, vision for osteopathic physicians
Robert G.G. Piccinini, DO, D.FACN, was installed this summer to lead the American Osteopathic Association.
Doctors — and patients — need new antibiotics. But a broken market can't deliver them.
Legislative solutions can incentivize research and development for lifesaving antimicrobials.
The cost of health care administration: Is health care too complex for automated, standardized payment processes?
‘Precedents thinking’ and what other businesses have to teach health care about cutting administrative burdens.
Strained connections: Physicians, patients, and the modern health care landscape
Bridging gaps to renew trust and deliver quality care
E-prescribing, prior auth management part of new federal rule on health care EHR systems
AMA praises new tech rules requiring less time on paperwork, giving physicians more time with patients.
The cost of health care administration: Lessons from the FAA as a public model
Protecting the front lines: Why primary care needs HIPAA-compliant payment networks
The trust between physicians and patients extends to the handling of medical records.
The cost of health care administration: Mobile phones as a public-private partnership model
The cost of health care administration: What’s an example with applicable lessons?
RPM and Medicare in 2026: When remote patient monitoring joins artificial intelligence
Potential changes for remote physiologic monitoring and remote therapeutic monitoring in the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.
The cost of health care administration: ‘This is a solvable problem’
The cost of health care administration: Finding solutions in other business sectors
The cost of health care administration: What’s the problem? Where to start?
RPM and Medicare in 2026: A growing body of data about patient health and outcomes
The cost of health care administration: A physician’s frustration
Physicians Foundation seeks nominees for award, grants around social drivers of health
Nominees due in early September, so online application process is open.
The cost of health care administration: An introduction
RPM and Medicare in 2026: The case for documentation
RPM and Medicare in 2026: Reimbursement rates for the coming year
ACP: Prescription drug shortages are a public health crisis that needs action now
New position paper outlines scope of problem and offers policies that could help.