Practice Management

The order sorts childhood immunizations into three categories, calls for separate visits and points the attorney general at state exemption laws.

Patients read normalizing language as a signal that treatment isn't recommended, new research finds.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

Physicians head into this back-to-school season with more than one immunization schedule in circulation, rising exemption rates and new counseling codes that payers are covering unevenly.

Advanced practice providers have moved from stopgap to permanent staff, and physicians are absorbing the change in patient acuity, productivity benchmarks and rural coverage.

Is the physician practice roll-up industry dead or humming along? The answer depends on the sector, specialty and platform.

WalletHub ranked all 50 states and the District of Columbia on 44 measures of cost, access and outcomes.

Just 49% of adults can now consistently afford needed care and medications

New Aflac survey data land as ChatGPT Health, Claude for Healthcare and Amazon's Health AI reach consumers at scale.

WalletHub ranked all 50 states and the District of Columbia on 44 measures of cost, access and outcomes.

Clinics and physician practices accounted for almost 30% of health care Chapter 11 filings in the first half of 2026, the one subsector climbing while the rest trended flat or down, according to a new Gibbins Advisors report.

No new beds. No new staff. Just smarter decisions about where patients are treated.

RAND researchers put the same questions to 15 primary care physicians employed by health systems and 15 independent ones. Neither model came out ahead on all five findings.

A 2026 physician survey finds administrative hassle now drives more doctors from clinical practice than the medicine itself — and independent practices, without a back office to absorb it, feel that weight first.

Physicians describe growth, challenges, patient responses as direct primary care expands.

Sports agent Leigh Steinberg, co-founder of physician branding agency MD Envoy, explains how doctors can turn their expertise into a public platform without jeopardizing their medical career.

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

Physicians have been quick to adopt AI scribes. Here’s how to integrate them the right way.

Health care economist Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., argues that two decades of inflation-eroded Medicare payment, not corporate ownership or management services organizations, is what is pushing independent practices to sell.

A new global survey finds up to a third of patients never start prescribed treatment, and the gaps aren't about access — they're about a healthcare model still designed around the doctor's office as the front door.

Overhead swallows roughly 60% of the typical practice's revenue, and most of it sits in a few line items. These nine moves pull real money off that number without touching the exam room — and the biggest lever is the one most owners are slowest to open.

New survey data shows why real-time support — not personalization or speed — is what actually keeps members loyal to their health plan

A new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds most voters believe Medicare and Medicaid fraud comes from the billing side of care, doctors’ offices and hospital systems, rather than from the patients who receive it.

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

What physicians need to know to begin considering malpractice liability with new artificial intelligence technology.