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CMS chief says outcomes-based pay can help patients while finally ending physicians' box-checking frustration.

New Pew Research Center data on screen time, sleep and how rarely cutting back actually sticks.

MGMA’s 100th-anniversary conference runs Sept. 27-30 in San Antonio, and these 10 sessions put physician contracts, compensation and legal exposure on the table.

Private insurance helps patients get care, but does not cover all costs, according to study by The Commonwealth Fund

U.S. health care has a patient loyalty problem hiding in plain sight, says a new report based on a survey of 10,000 consumers.

Rebecca Schoon, Ph.D., who helped lead the Oregon arm of a national moral injury report, says patients can see what corporate ownership and insurer barriers are doing to their doctors.

New specialists' schedules fill quickly, the authors of an NEJM Catalyst analysis write, and changing how existing clinicians are used may do more to shorten waits.

Reactions from five leading organizations were among thousands of public comments on the draft document.

Physician groups back ACCESS Model but warn CMS against care fragmentation

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

The United States must address vaccine misinformation head-on or risk losing children to infectious disease.

Three health policy leaders argue that strengthening primary care payment isn't an attack on specialists — it's the fix the whole system needs.

Independent primary care is struggling under a payment system stacked against it

New national research shows health systems and health plans still can't get provider data right — and the fallout lands squarely on physician practices

Health care economist Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., says two decades of inflation-eroded Medicare payment, not corporate ownership, is what keeps pushing independent practices to sell.

Physicians reveal which channels give the most medical misinformation to patients

Why some health plans will emerge stronger while others face retrenchment

Lawrence Casalino, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., argues that as medicine consolidates, physicians are increasingly treated as interchangeable parts, and that the damage shows up in the parts of care no quality program measures.

AI should reduce clerical work while increasing supervised reasoning, feedback and clinical judgment for developing physicians.

What physicians need to know about the AMA's new AI framework

Despite major problems across U.S. health care, evidence shows what primary care is getting right.

For years, falling claims frequency quietly held malpractice premiums down, and there are early signs that's about to stop.

Big groups clean up in independent dispute resolution, but little, if any, goes to primary care.

Fifteen years of research hasn't moved the federal rules that keep new physician-owned hospitals from opening.

Insurers pledged six fixes to prior authorization in June 2025. A year later, only 24% of physicians say denials are getting the specialty-matched review that was promised first.