Physician Advocacy

What's written at the point of referral affects how that record holds up later. Here’s what primary care physicians need to know.

Primary care is a team sport, but some of the most important players are outside the physician’s office.

Primary care is a team sport, but some of the most important players are outside the physician’s office.

Here’s how to get paid more for managing patient complex conditions over time.

Why is independent practice so important to health care? U.S. women’s Health Alliance advocates explain why

The top news stories in medicine this week.

A practical guide for physicians to improve their medication stewardship.

Medicare spends $1.1 trillion a year — or misspends it, depending on this analysis of incentives and outcomes.

Patients are already using AI to choose physicians. Here’s what your website needs to say to show up in those results.

A primary care physician and policy expert reflects on current health care and service with MedPAC.

Because clinicians and the system are not programmed to ask: What can safely be stopped?

An excerpt from the book-length expose by surgeon-author Erica Rowe Urquhart, M.D., Ph.D., MBA

A bipartisan bill to fix Medicare's budget-neutrality rules cleared a key House committee. But this year's 2.5% pay bump is already eroding, and it disappears in 2027 without further action.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

Surgeon and author advocates for independent practice and pinpoints problems with prior authorizations.

Medical school enrollment has grown significantly over the past two decades, yet residency capacity has not kept pace, due in large part to longstanding caps on Medicare-supported GME positions. The result is a bottleneck that limits how many physicians can enter practice each year and where they end up practicing.

Atlanta internist and former ACP president Sandra A. Fryhofer, M.D. elected president-elect

Because ‘corporate intrusion threatens patient-centered care’ as national concerns grow about private equity ownership.

The world is shifting. Now is the time to trust and enhance physician leadership — and here's how to do it

One in five privately insured adults denied coverage for doctor-recommended care, survey finds

American Hospital Association asks for collaboration to implement a new policy guide addressing major issues across U.S. health care and medicine.

Clubfoot is treatable, yet too many children still go without care. Family physicians and pediatricians have a critical role in closing this gap.

A new JAMA proposal would treat primary care as a public utility, pooling the dollars payers already spend on it into a single state fund that pays practices directly, with no new spending needed to start.

A policy expert explains what physicians need to know when patients ask about the changing prices of their medicines.

The Commonwealth Fund examines health care across developed nations and finds dismal results for the United States.