Practice Management

Staffing at medical practices has become one of the biggest challenges they face. Dina Taylor explains why.

Shawntea Gordon of Atlas & Perpetua Healthcare Consulting says the cost most practices cut first is usually the one that was never the problem.

AAFP President Sarah C. Nosal, M.D., says family physicians should work from the academy's vaccine schedule and that the counseling required to explain it is time practices aren't paid for.

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.

Joanne Frederick of Government Market Strategies argues the fix for runaway health care costs turned out worse than the problem it solved.

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.

Nearly half of health care organizations say patient access improved this year. Fewer than one in five patients agree. Experian Health's chief operating officer explains what practices are measuring that patients are not, and why a missing cost estimate now keeps patients out of the exam room entirely.

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.

A pediatrician at the center of the country's largest cyclospora outbreak on why the official case counts are almost certainly too low, and what most labs aren't looking for.

Gary Jacobs argues the payment system is what makes small practices unsustainable, and that the physicians who wait it out usually end up selling to a hospital rather than choosing their own exit.

A national survey of 465 direct primary care physicians upends the $77-per-month benchmark and much of what the model was assumed to look like.

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.

Another conversion factor cut is on the table for 2027, and MGMA's Anders Gilberg breaks down why budget neutrality keeps forcing cuts in one specialty to pay for another and what the end of MIPS means for physicians.

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.