Practice Management

More than two-thirds (67%) of physicians who participated in an ACO last year reported no personal financial benefit, such as a bonus or shared savings agreement, as a result of their participation, according to a survey of about 3,500 physicians from a healthcare staffing firm.

One innovative Florida primary care practice has innovated to optimize care for seniors with multiple chronic conditions - increasing patient satisfaction, boosting the amount of time doctors and patients spend together, improving patients' medication adherence, and achieving lower rates of hospital use than its peers, according to Health Affairs.

Effective management of Type 2 diabetes usually requires a multi-pronged approach that includes drug therapies and lifestyle changes. Patient adherence to a plan is the main challenge for primary care physicians.

Hospital systems primarily led the initial movement to form ACOs, but physician groups now have surpassed them as the most common sponsoring entity among all ACOs.

Physicians with busy practices need to carefully consider whether to add a new provider, and if so, whether the provider should be another physician or a midlevel.

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Not sure if you can find a job on your own or if you should work with a physician recruiting firm? Jim Stone, president and co-owner of physician recruitment organization The Medicus Firm, may have the answer.

Some policy analysts have suggested expanding the roles of physician assistants and nurse practitioners as one potential way to help alleviate some of the burden on physicians, and a new study published in Health Affairs shows that consumers are open to that idea.

While employee handbooks serve a very important role, keep them simple and to-the-point, and outline the practice’s most salient expectations and legal obligations when creating them.

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is renewing its call for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to pay physicians for telephone evaluations, care plan oversight services, and online evaluations.

When it comes to securing and protecting patient health information, physician practices with fewer than 50 providers fared the worst in a recent audit by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has 700 full-time staffers devoted to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and some pundits believe that number may grow to a minimum of 5,000 employees, according to a recent report in Forbes.

As more people become eligible for healthcare under the Affordable Care Act, the question of access will become paramount. Discover how care coordinators can help ensure access for all.

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More than 76% of medical schools have launched or are planning to build at least one initiative to increase interest in primary care specialties.

The federal Employee Retirement Income and Security Act (ERISA) offers physicians opportunities to challenge and collect on claims denied by commercial insurers.

More market efficiency is needed in healthcare, but a completely unregulated free market actually may increase costs without improving quality, according to one expert.

A federal judge's decision last week that could result in individual doctors' Medicare claims data being made public - though the ruling does provide doctors with a degree of protection.

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A new study reveals, unsurprisingly, that many healthcare workers spend their time at work on Facebook. But what was surprising was the increase in usage found in one emergency department as it became busier.

More than 31% of medical practices in a recent survey say they're replacing their old electronic health records systems with new ones, citing dissatisfaction as the most frequent reason behind the switch.

It's called the "dean's lie," and Andrew Morris-Singer, MD, and his nonprofit advocacy group Primary Care Progress are out to expose this fallacy that gives Americans a false sense of security that the nation's primary care shortage is being addressed.