Practice Management

No physician wants to write a prescription that their patient can’t afford. But having affordability information, such as co-pays and vouchers or discounts, embedded into the EHR encourages better conversations between patients and providers about medication costs and support options.

It’s a premium interactive digital edition built for physicians who mean business.

Here’s how to augment your front-end workers so they can focus on patients when staff and funding are in short supply.

No one wants to make a medical error, but when they happen, there is a right way to tell the patient.

GeoVax President and CEO David Dodd makes the case that the U.S. vaccine system isn't quite broken, but it is badly in need of better communication, clearer processes and a lot more listening.

Climbing the wall: A lens approach to physician leadership growth

A surgeon in longtime independent practice shares lessons from dealing with the micro- and macroeconomic forces over medicine.

Is DPC for me? Hear from physicians who made the switch and found success.

Veradigm’s survey of 360 practice leaders finds operational and financial pressures, not clinical concerns, are the top threats to independence.

Skillsoft's SVP of compliance solutions, Asha Palmer, says banning AI doesn't stop staff from using it — it just means practices lose visibility over what's happening to their data.

A Medical Economics and Physicians Practice flash poll, sponsored by Heidi, found physicians split on AI, even as 70% are using or evaluating AI scribes in their practices.

Is DPC for you? Hear from physicians who made the switch and found success.

Experity Chief Medical Officer Andrea Giamalva, M.D., FAAFP, says urgent care is becoming a broader front door to care.

How to take advantage of an underutilized revenue and care quality opportunity hiding in plain sight.

Four primary care experts unpack a landmark report showing that investing in primary care isn't just good medicine — it's the most powerful cost-reduction strategy the U.S. isn't using.

The UCSF Department of Medicine chair says AI scribes are the right first use case for AI in health care.

Kem Tolliver breaks down how to build a strategic revenue cycle work plan, get payer friction under control and stop the hidden leaks draining your practice's cash flow.

Two-thirds of health care finance chiefs cite government funding uncertainty as their biggest concern in Strata Decision Technology's 2026 report.

Leon Moores, M.D., says medicine's most overlooked leadership skill wasn't in your curriculum — but you can fix that this week.

Doctors already have difficulty keeping patients on their meds. Prior authorization barriers are just making it worse.

Shannon Sumner says fraud enforcement has never been more data-driven.

The sad reality is that too many Americans are ingesting a daily cocktail of Big Pharma prescribed by multiple doctors who typically don’t talk to each other or know each other.

Elation Health’s inaugural Primary Care Pulse report finds independent primary care physicians are adopting new payment models, embracing AI and holding onto their patient relationships despite mounting financial pressure.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

The workplace violence numbers are shocking. The financial cost of ignoring them is worse.