Practice Finance

Office of the Inspector General recommends CMS conduct targeted hospital reviews for possible upcoding violations

The COVID-19 vaccine will continue to affect the financial situation of health care facilities through 2021.

Your E/M coding questions, answered, on this week's Medical Economics Pulse.

Cash balance plans can help physicians save on taxes

While physicians are focused on COVID, there are other areas that pose grave financial risk to their practices.

Doctors who have lived through natural disasters advise their peers it’s impossible to over-prepare

Telehealth, remote monitoring will boost patient outcomes and value-based care results

COVID may have hurt your finances, but the issues of risk remain.

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.

The last 10 months has changed healthcare in unforeseen ways.

Deloitte sees health spending as a percentage of GDP to slow due to new technologies, early disease detection, and engaged patients.

How independent practices can survive by working together.

The researchers found that nearly a quarter of low-value spending among Medicare beneficiaries is tied to their primary care physician.

High hospitalization rates and consumer reluctance to seek non-urgent care are to blame.

NAACOS blames the drop on a number of policies implemented by the last administration.

COVID has brought a host of new practice liability threats. Is your practice protected?

Preparing for a private equity transaction can help strengthen your practice’s business structure, even if you forego a deal.

How can independent practices stay in business without sacrificing their freedom?

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.

Comparing the old guidance to the new.

How can physicians get started on a profitable remote patient monitoring program?

Reimbursement trends every physician must watch for.