Opinion

A Medicare change may effect billing

Medicare payment reform offers added incentives for making pharmacists part of a patient’s care delivery team.

For doctors, the price of prescription drugs used to be largely a medical concern: Patients wouldn’t get better if they couldn’t afford to fill their prescriptions. But with Medicare’s growing emphasis on value-based care, many physicians now also have a financial stake in ensuring that patients can pay for the medications they need.

Before investing in or becoming associated with any outside venture, it is critical to proactively identify and limit risks

Regulators are providing flexibility when it comes to system upgrades, but functionality questions remain

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Experts are skeptical that deregulating state insurance markets will lead to less costly plans and better coverage

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One in four Americans has multiple chronic conditions according to the CDC.

Teens want and need physicians to reach out and give them responsibility when it comes to managing vaccination, according to a new report.

States requiring students to get certain vaccinations before middle school have lower disease incidences and higher compliance rates, a new report finds.

We, the people, must have an open debate and come to resolution on healthcare: Is it a right or a privilege?

In the last few years, drug overdoses led by opioids have become the leading cause of accidental deaths, eclipsing that of automobile crashes and violence.

Vaccine-related injuries in adults are rising, but healthcare providers administering those vaccines rarely have to worry about liability claims.

Researchers have developed a microneedle patch that could replace injections for influenza vaccination and a host of other diseases.

EHRs enable exchange of patient records through health information exchanges, but making the record-sharing work isn’t seamless.

Assigning a “superuser” can help optimize EHR use and minimize disruptions by bringing necessary support skills to your practice.

A new report highlights key missing elements needed to achieve complete elimination of hepatitis C virus.

A sustained response to direct-acting antivirals lowers the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma, a new study finds.

Over the past 5 years, there has been a major shift in physician practice models, with fewer doctors working in the small, physician-run practices that were considered standard in years past.

The same MRI machines that reveal the inner workings of the human body can also expose healthcare professionals to lethal attacks by hackers who use medical devices to infect computer systems with ransomware.

According to a new study, two clinics found that several initiatives enacted in those practices led to higher than average vaccine uptake among senior citizens.

A new report states that updating current vaccination guidelines could save nearly $300 million annually.

Contentiousness. Rage. Hate. Political talk often becomes anything but a civil conversation, and these days, patients are bringing their politics with them into exam rooms.

Providing healthcare pricing is important, but listing them in the form of a static menu is not helpful.

More than twice as many adults aged 45 to 65 with diabetes reported skipping doses of medication to save money, according to new data.

Women who experienced premature or early menopause were more than twice as likely to have type 2 diabetes, a new study finds.

Chances are, many independent medical practices are participating in Medicare’s Quality Payment Program through the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2017.

For physicians, the main concern isn’t deciphering what a payer-government or commercial-feels is “quality” or collecting the data to prove the metrics are being met. The overarching question is whether this is really good for patients.

Come out swinging for patients.