Practice Management

The unnecessary ordering of diagnostic imaging tests is the focus of two articles published this week. Find out what's being done to correct the problem.

This month's question asks about the use of modifiers for services performed before a hospital admission. Find out the answer to this pressing coding question.

Medical Economics asks doctors what the future of primary care looks like.

Medical Economics readers discuss whether competition and the free market will really help the healthcare system.

Is it possible that the repots of the "death" of primary care might be exaggerated?

What are the keys to an easy EHR adoption?

You don't have to handle EHR implementation on your own. Learn how one doctor depended on others to achieve meaningful use.

It's time to take a look at the state of healthcare.

Change is the one constant in health information technology. What does the future hold?

Despite the news of primary care's decline, reports seem to indicate that primary care skills are gaining in value.

Thinking about leasing a car? Discover why owning outright might make more financial sense.

Find out how well-designed EHR workflows can help productivity.

Charles J. Lockwood, MD, MHCM, discusses the Affordable Care Act, primary care, and the state of the healthcare system with Medical Economics Editor-in-Chief Lois A. Bowers, MA.

Have an employee who is key to your organization but only works well with a few people in the practice? See what you should do.

You don't necessarily need to buy out a retiring partner.

Worried about how EHRs are going to affect your productivity? Find out what other physicians are saying about the issue.

Use of personal health records improves prevention, study says.

Been a while since you hired a new associate? Here's what you need to know about finding the right person.

Has your landlord offered you a 'good guy' clause in your lease? See how such provisions can protect you in the future.

Afraid to face the inevitability of EHR Implementation? See the best ways one doctor dealt with it.

Implementation of ICD-10 has been delayed until October 1, 2014, according to new rules published today in the Federal Register.

Primary care doctors who are ensnared in one of the new RAC project's reviews could see a 75-day delay in payment.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology have released the final requirements for your exchanging health information with colleagues and increasing patient online access through your electronic health record system to receive federal incentive payments.

A new initiative led by the federal government will pay 500 participating primary care practices a $20 monthly per-patient care-management fee – and in many cases more.

Internists in five states will be part of an American College of Physicians/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention effort to create a 3-year, evidence-based program to increase adult immunization rates.

Invisible tasks associated with non-face-to-face patient care are threatening to make the workload of primary care physicians unsustainable, a new study says.

Theft was the No. 1 cause of data breaches, accounting for 52% last year. Unauthorized access accounted for 19%. Just 6% of breaches happened due to hacking.

A lack of educational mandate is one reason that many medical schools do not teach their students how to use electronic health record (EHR) systems, even though use of the systems is increasing in the practice of medicine.

The government is trying to make it easier for you to submit claims payments to insurance companies electronically. Find out how your practice can benefit.

Nearly one-third of you aren't accepting new Medicaid patients, but increasing Medicaid reimbursement rates to Medicare levels could go a long way toward overcoming that reluctance, according to a new report.