Opinion

Contracts between hospitals and providers create price discrimination and harm consumers

But doctors need more funding and payment options to be effective

An exclusive excerpt from the new book “Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink."

Here’s to 2022 being the year that we begin to make significant strides in improving the US health care system.

Medical billing is complex and time-consuming. Does it have to be?

When I read about the plight of primary care doctors and their widespread dissatisfaction with their profession, I remember Dr. William Vroom.

Are you willing to try something different?

Leveraging insights from AI and behavioral science can improve financial outcomes as well as clinical ones.

This trend presents an enormous challenge for traditional practices.

Health care cost increases are not the result of over-utilization, but rather legalized kickback schemes.

There are ways to mitigate stress by managing its symptoms. But there are also ways to lessen stress by preventing some of it in the first place.

In response to great need for primary care, we have been purposefully redesigning and changing it for a decade now. Have we made any progress?

As we approach the holidays, we often find ourselves feeling overwhelmed and overcommitted. ‘Tis the season to start setting boundaries.

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

Hospitals should put you in the pink, not in the red.

I am convinced that primary care and much of medicine today are in an “evidence desert”. Let me explain.

Can moonlighting lead to career freedom?

The increased volume of ransomware, data breaches and other attacks that started during the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten patient, data and medical device safety.

Like any powerful tool or technology, RPM can be used to make things better, but it can also wreak havoc if not done right.

It’s time for health policy experts—and the public—to wake up and question whether replacing physicians with nonphysician practitioners is healthy for the state of our nation.

With COVID-19 cases resurging and the flu season fast approaching, we may see new concerns pop up, most especially with unvaccinated populations.

Debate and discussion about the origin of the virus that causes COVID-19 have been at the forefront of the global consciousness since the first cases were reported in December 2019.

They are showing hospitals how it’s done.

Where is telehealth headed after the COVID-19 pandemic — and how can we optimize its value?