Practice Management

Kansas court records reviewed by The New York Times show the practice charged 18% annual interest, garnished bank accounts and pursued arrest warrants over balances as small as $101.

Rigid adherence thresholds in CMS's updated coverage decision leave doctors and suppliers guessing — and vulnerable patients at risk of losing a life-extending therapy

Since April, confidence in Anthony Fauci has fallen to just 50%, while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unchanged at 38%, in a survey fielded during the Senate contempt vote.

WalletHub scored all 50 states and Washington, D.C., on 16 vaccination metrics. The bottom 10 holds the state with the highest kindergarten exemption rate in the country, and one whose kindergarten coverage is among the highest anywhere.

WalletHub scored all 50 states and Washington, D.C., on 16 vaccination metrics.

Why credence-service marketing must make a physician's clinical judgment visible to patients, not just louder.

Physicians reveal which channels give the most medical misinformation to patients

A U.K. review of 27 papers found the evidence on ambient scribe risks thinner than the American adoption curve.

Researchers verified thousands of fake reviews posted by providers and clinic staff and found them longer, more clinically detailed and better received than the real thing. HIPAA leaves physicians very little room to respond.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

With AI being used by both candidates and hiring managers, finding good employees in the resume pile can be challenging.

Digital mental health tools can widen access to care, but they also create clinical and administrative work — enrollment, data review, escalation, documentation — that rarely gets budgeted for before launch.

An Annenberg Public Policy Center survey of 1,904 adults found 87% are confident in their own doctor, nurse or other primary care physician, compared with 59% to 61% for the three federal health agencies.

Side work — from telemedicine to expert witness testimony — can supplement income, ease burnout and build a second retirement plan for employed physicians.

AAFP issued its fall COVID-19, flu and RSV recommendations Wednesday, saying it coordinated with three other societies, while the coverage rules, counseling pay and registry logic behind them have not caught up.

Medical Economics spoke with Michael Pelagalli, J.D., partner at internet defamation firm Minc Law, about where the legal line sits and what a practice should do first.

A Hint Health whitepaper says direct primary care's longer visits make it the natural home for lifestyle medicine. Nearly half of practices surveyed have panels under 200.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

Here are five strategies for independent practices to keep the doors open.

Concierge and direct primary care sites grew 83.1% in five years, and direct primary care starts 2026 with a federal tax break it did not have before.

Cost trends keep outrunning forecasts in recent years. The Business Group on Health survey shows that next year will follow the same trend.

Considering that a family physician's office is often the first—and sometimes only—place where patients discuss mental health concerns, adding such services within a primary care setting makes sense for both the practice and the communities it serves.

Five sources account for much of the information ChatGPT uses to describe a physician, and practices can audit all five and act on most of them without hiring a specialized AI-visibility vendor.

A bipartisan bill would let employers pay $1,200 to cut the 372-day labor certification wait to 30 days, easing one early bottleneck for practices that hire foreign-born staff.

As technology and services advance, practice owners have more options than ever to thrive.