Physician Advocacy

A pediatrician offers advice on diagnosing the illness and discussing it with patients.

Another conversion factor cut is on the table for 2027, and MGMA's Anders Gilberg breaks down why budget neutrality keeps forcing cuts in one specialty to pay for another and what the end of MIPS means for physicians.

Benefit design is quietly undermining primary care. How can doctors fight it?

Ambulatory Surgery Center Association analyzes financial effects in a growing part of U.S. health care.

Perceptions, policies and prices all are factors in the future of direct primary care, advocates say

A reimbursement gap of five to 12 times for the same procedure is letting hospitals outbid private practices for their own physicians. Three U.S. Women's Health Alliance advocates explain what it costs patients and what they are asking Congress to do about it.

Physician lawmakers support primary care, inflation-indexed payments and new POINTS system for quality reporting.

For better health at a cheaper cost, the nation needs more investment, access and doctors in primary care.

When the exam you didn't do is still on the chart, it erodes credibility with patients, physicians and payers.

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

Two family doctors explain a new NASEM report recommending community-clinical partnerships

An Oregon emergency physician group beat back a hospital's attempt to replace it with a national staffing firm, offering independent practices a playbook built on physician unity, advocacy and corporate practice of medicine law.

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.

A new federal rule makes it far less expensive for practices to challenge denied and reduced payments, but Anders Gilberg of MGMA says the more difficult problem is getting insurers to pay up after physicians win.

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.