Practice Management

Far more patients are receiving antibiotic prescriptions than is warranted by their condition, according to results of two surveys.

Though President Barack Obama takes responsibility, it is still unclear when the healthcare exchange website will be fixed.

A panel of 18 physicians spent months discussing ways to curb the unsustainable growth of healthcare costs in the United States.

Although a physician’s CV will include all of the required information for the hiring process, a well-written cover letter can provide the opportunity for them to distinguish themselves from other candidates.

The American College of Physicians has issued a new clinical guideline for treating patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Results of a new survey show that most physicians pay attention to online reviews.

More young adults are having a harder time transitioning from pediatric to adult healthcare.

For many primary care physicians, on-call pay will likely not be a major part of contract negotiations says Tommy Bohannon, divisional vice president for Merritt Hawkins, but for specialists, it could be.

Relatively small slices of the population account for substantial amounts of the nation's healthcare expenditures

Two of healthcare's information technology leaders are merging

A new report challenges the theory that the small medical practice is nearly extinct

Three experts offer advice during the 2013 American Academy of Family Physician annual conference in San Diego, California.

Creating a plan to increase pay based performance is a gradual change, not a leap of faith

A reader defends the goals of the Affordable Care Act.

A reader says that Canada's single-payer healthcare system is not right for the United States.

A reader comments on the difficulties of practicing primary care medicine in today's healthcare system.

As part of its ongoing electronic health records best practices series, Medical Economics examines the impact of EHRs on a rural medical practice.

Safeguards included in the Affordable Care Act assure that doctors will continue to provide quality, appropriate care.

This month Medical Economics celebrates nine decades as the leading business publication for physicians, and it is coming in a period marked by historic economic change for healthcare.

They say that “confession is good for the soul,” so let us admit right at the start that the average physician is often a poor business man when it comes to collecting the money honestly due him.

This essay appeared in the first issue of Medical Economics published in October 1923. He writes about "checking the growth of irregular schools and destroying charlatan factories."

The lack of physicians serving the nation's rural areas was a subject of concern when Medical Economics began publication in 1923.

What types of insurance issues plagued physicians in 1932?

A reader says that primary care physicians perform screening and follow-up for depression in patients.