Opinion

The first-place winner of the 2018 Physician Writing Contest urges her peers to look at the motivating fears behind patient visits for clarity.

The second-place winner of the 2018 Physician Writing Contest reflects on various ways doctors can be present for their patients.

The third-place winner of the 2018 Physician Writing Contest learned three key lessons in interacting with one of her patients, Rebekah.

Presenting price estimates can provide practices with an opportunity for greater outreach to current and potential patients.

You truly have to walk a mile in a patient’s shoes to find out the true barriers to improving their well-being.

The Joint Commission’s “misconceptions” on pain just don’t make sense as many see it as the key to today’s opioid crisis.

Physicians are willing and able to care for the underserved, the needy, and the vulnerable, but are being replaced by lesser trained providers to save money.

Here’s one prescription you might not mind writing-one for fresh fruit and vegetables.

Value-based care and related metrics are one more thing physicians don’t need to deal with. Here are three possible solutions to make things easier.

Internists urge focus on non-medical factors to truly drive patient improvement, promote health equity

One physician offers advice to peers to make value-based care work at private practices, and perhaps even see financial gains.

For every billing error, there’s a potentially easy solution.

Healthcare can learn to streamline billing from payment processing tools used in other industries.

When it comes to reviews of physicians on platforms like Yelp, the customer is not always right.

There are numerous models for primary care delivery successfully saving money while also improving patient outcomes.

More patients could take advantage of shorter direct-acting antiviral treatment duration.

Females, Hispanics screened less often for highly curable infection.

The USDA’s plans to ship pre-filled food boxes to Americans is well-intentioned, but has its flaws as well.

Technology has the power to connect, but also the power to divide, as physicians well know.

Rather than presenting a challenge to small medical practices, telemedicine can present an opportunity.

Denials continue to frustrate medical practices. That’s why focusing on the 90 percent that are avoidable is important. That’s where the hidden revenue lies.

The policies, technology, security, and reimbursement guidelines a practice needs in place to make telemedicine work

Healthcare providers engaged in providing telemedicine services must carefully navigate numerous regulatory obstacles.

ACP’s president, Jack Ende, outlines the organization’s stance not against guns, but rather firearm violence

A bipartisan bill introduced in Congress in January could help improve patient care while saving doctors time by allowing for electronic prior authorizations of Medicare Part D prescriptions.

Set policies to protect your practice

Consider this clinical scenario

As more practices consider offering telemedicine, both the big picture and the small details matter.

Saving for college is one thing, but making the most out of those savings is something else entirely.