Practice Finance

To payers, these visits tell a completely different story about the work that’s required to treat a patient.

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Here are a number of ways physicians can work with their patients to best overcome cost barriers for their prescriptions.

Looking for professional insight, opinions, and even a little humor from your peers? Start by following these internal medicine docs on Twitter.

Three strategies to overcome burnout and bureaucracy and remain committed to medicine.

Physicians face financial ruin if patients continue to access products they simply cannot afford.

With constant changes in healthcare and how much patients are responsible to pay for their care, practices should turn to technology for assistance.

By empowering physicians with evidence-based guidelines, they are better-equipped to make clinical decisions that are cost-effective and drive high-quality outcomes.

A new study shows that DPC clinicians may have found the key to reducing burnout and returning a focus to patients.

A recent survey of direct primary care physicians revealed some interesting insight on physician burnout and restoring joy in medicine.

Some simple patient practices may help improve the bottom line

Practices must embrace change to survive the shift to value based care

Lectures don’t work to motivate patients because the use of guilt and threats are horrible motivators. The same goes for doctors.

In the years ahead, experts expect portals will move beyond the limited functionality they have today and transform into a user-friendly technology that put a patient’s whole health history into one easy-to-navigate online portal.

Preserve earnings, bolster tax savings and better plan for the future.

The growing threat of being hacked has more primary care physicians buying cyber insurance.

Digital ledger holds the potential to improve practice processes, but don’t get blinded by hype.

Should a family conference be captured with a time-based E/M code?

Given their salaries and chances of getting sued, physicians should strongly consider estate planning after residency.

Patients are comparing their healthcare experience against their experiences in retail and the service sector. And, let’s face it, healthcare hasn’t been known for providing modern, super engaging, seamless experiences.

Even though they’ve been available for decades, portals have yet to meet their lofty expectations, a situation for which both patients and doctors share the blame.

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Access isn’t just a question of overcoming the hurdle of being seen by a provider, but being seen by someone with the level of expertise required for the best clinical outcome.

Don’t be fooled. When mergers occur, patients and physicians lose; executives at the top are the only ones who truly win.

Three simple indices and metrics are the key to higher medical practice performance.