July 2nd 2025
A new policy paper from the American College of Physicians lays out eight recommendations to modernize risk adjustment, reduce administrative waste and better serve high-risk patients.
July 1st 2025
Bill goes back to House and vote is expected soon as health care organizations predict dire consequences for health care.
June 30th 2025
Pediatricians offer anecdotal evidence in ACIP deliberations as vaccine skepticism grows under RFK Jr.
June 27th 2025
Vaccines become center of the medical world as ACIP meets to advise CDC.
June 26th 2025
Vaccine supporters say science is on their side, but others want more research and better guidance on getting inoculated against illness.
Health care consolidation pushes up costs, but not quality
Systematic review examines effects of corporatization through mergers and acquisitions since 2000.
Consolidation can lead to work conditions that add to physician burnout
Physicians Foundation examined how doctors feel about business environment in health care.
Burnout and consolidation: We’re expecting too little of AI
The president of The Physicians Foundation discusses consolidation in health care and how it contributes to burnout.
Burnout and consolidation: A new generation of feelings about mental health for physicians
Burnout and consolidation: Making it easier to get mental health aid
Burnout and consolidation: Feelings of frustration may be moderating a bit
Burnout and consolidation: Physician burnout is not abating
Burnout and consolidation: Smaller, independent practices are gone, and so is joy of being a doctor
Burnout and consolidation: Incentives for health systems to grow
Private equity investment can help independent doctors, health care quality, AIMPA says
There are different types of PE involvement in health care, and not all are bad, says group of independent practitioners.
Burnout and consolidation: Preserving physician autonomy
Burnout and consolidation: ‘The environment physicians are practicing in has changed dramatically’
Private equity in health care: More ways to strengthen independent practice
The leader of the American Independent Medical Practice Association discusses the state of private equity investment in health care.
Burnout and consolidation: an introduction
Private equity in health care: Fix the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
Private equity in health care: ‘Don’t regulate us out of existence’
Private equity in health care: Cost, quality and regulation
Private equity in health care: Measuring quality of care
Private equity in health care: Physicians provide the lowest-cost care
Private equity in health care: Picking medical specialties to study
Private equity in health care: Four models of physician employment
Private equity in health care: Developing the base of a study
Private equity in health care: ‘A different animal’
Private equity in health care: an introduction
Holiday shopping bonus: 10 more holiday gift ideas for physicians on your ‘nice’ list
Need some last-minute gift ideas for the physicians in your life? We’ve got you covered.
Why more physicians don’t participate in value-based payment models
Researchers asked doctors why they continue with fee-for-service payment. There are many reasons, as a study co-author explains.
Value-based payment models: Potential solutions, part 2
A physician researcher discusses why primary care physicians do not participate in value-based payment models.
Value-based payment models: Too much documentation
Value-based payment models: Problematic performance measures
Value-based payment: Not all insurers are on board