February 6th 2025
Risk-adjusted monthly payments better align funding with the needs of high-risk primary care patients, UMass Chan study finds.
February 5th 2025
Humana’s 11th annual Value-Based Care Report highlights the impact of value-based care on patient outcomes and health care costs.
February 4th 2025
Inexperienced physicians who take longer to answer patient inquiries are better compensated than medical experts who are able to help right away.
January 22nd 2025
Rising costs can put financial pressure on medical practices, potentially resulting in challenges like payroll delays and operational setbacks. These tips can help.
January 17th 2025
Despite the proven effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation services, high out-of-pocket costs may prevent patients from participating in the programs.
Cash balance plans: What physicians need to know
Cash balance plans can help physicians save on taxes
Are there liability areas that leave your medical practice vulnerable?
While physicians are focused on COVID, there are other areas that pose grave financial risk to their practices.
Emergency preparedness strategies for physicians
Doctors who have lived through natural disasters advise their peers it’s impossible to over-prepare
Advanced technology will help drive reimbursement change
Telehealth, remote monitoring will boost patient outcomes and value-based care results
Why you shouldn’t cancel insurance as a cost-cutting measure
COVID may have hurt your finances, but the issues of risk remain.
Q&A: Keeping health care practices viable during, after COVID-19
Confronting the Variance in Cancer Care Cost: An Interview With Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, the former CMS administrator, discusses cost variation in cancer care found through the digital classification system the COTA Nodal Address.
Doctor, look out for these great moonlighting opportunities in 2021
The last 10 months has changed healthcare in unforeseen ways.
National health care spending expected to fall in next 20 years
Deloitte sees health spending as a percentage of GDP to slow due to new technologies, early disease detection, and engaged patients.
Health care still shedding jobs
Strength in numbers: How physicians can work together and thrive
How independent practices can survive by working together.
Report: Primary care physicians tied to nearly a quarter of low-value spending
The researchers found that nearly a quarter of low-value spending among Medicare beneficiaries is tied to their primary care physician.
Coronavirus: Pandemic still hurting physician groups
High hospitalization rates and consumer reluctance to seek non-urgent care are to blame.
ACO participation dropped during Trump administration
NAACOS blames the drop on a number of policies implemented by the last administration.
What you need to know about liability insurance
COVID has brought a host of new practice liability threats. Is your practice protected?
Preparing your Practice for a Private Equity Transaction
Preparing for a private equity transaction can help strengthen your practice’s business structure, even if you forego a deal.
The challenges, and opportunities, of clinically integrated networks
How can independent practices stay in business without sacrificing their freedom?
Top Challenges 2021: #2 Getting paid and seeing enough patients
In late 2020, Medical Economics® asked our physician audience what they thought would be the most challenging issues they will face this year. This is what they told us.
Clearing up confusion on the new E/M guidelines
Comparing the old guidance to the new.
Getting paid for remote patient monitoring
How can physicians get started on a profitable remote patient monitoring program?
2021 Physician payment outlook
Reimbursement trends every physician must watch for.
Top Challenges 2021: #7 Saving for retirement
10 cities with the highest demand for physicians in 2020
Here are the top U.S. cities with the highest demand for physicians in the year 2020.
Why physicians must act now to address outpatient documentation challenges
Big changes to Medicare coding guidelines outpatient evaluation and management services haven taken effect.
Primary care orgs team up to “rewire” financing
The seven organizations have developed recommendation to transform the way primary care is financed.
How prior authorizations negatively affect care
Doctors say that delays are hurting patient outcomes.
Coronavirus: Stimulus bill includes provisions for physicians
The $900 billion compromise stimulus bill was passed very late Monday evening as part of a $2.3 trillion omnibus spending bill.
Business tax prep tips for physicians
What business tax prep do physicians need to do now? Find out, on today's Medical Economics Pulse.
Coronavirus: HHS releasing $24.5 billion in physician relief funding
After a review of phase three applications, the department will release $4.5 billion more than initially anticipated.
Transitional care management
Will changes make getting paid easier?