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More than 200 professional medical association co-signed the letter asking for Congressional action before the end of the year.

MGMA lobbies for 3.75% Physician Fee Schedule payment adjustment

COVID-19 is prompting significant changes to malpractice laws and regulations at the state and federal levels.

COVID-19 and malpractice lawsuits: What the future may hold

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These tips can keep your practice safe from ransomware, hackers and other bad actors.

7 ways to prevent healthcare ransomware attacks

The "Cures 2.0" bill, if signed into law, would expand medical research, aid development of new therapies and expand telehealth. 

Cures 2.0 legislation introduced: Would fund disease research, telehealth expansion

Because physicians are likely to be sued at some point, they should always be working in a way that helps mitigate their legal risks.

Beating a malpractice suit starts with these 3 steps

The association claims that the new surprise billing law’s arbitration provision overly favors insurers.

Texas Medical Association sues over surprise billing law arbitration provision

Medical decision making now is influenced by everyone from insurers and government policymakers to the administrators of corporate entities that employ physicians. 

Beware the trend of for-profit medicine 

More than 840,000 people died from overdoses between 1999 and 2019

HHS launches plan to prevent overdoses

Dr Bernard was a National Health Care Scholar and served at a Federally Qualified Health Center in Immokalee, Florida for six years after her residency.  She then worked for a large out-patient hospital group before opening her own practice, which she con

The Facebook outage is a reminder of how crucial it is for physicians and health care facilities to protect themselves in such an event.

EHR outages and patient safety: Protecting yourself from liability

A discussion about what affect under-insured patients will have on health care.

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