Practice Management

CMS added 190 new diagnosis codes for fiscal 2027 — here's how to tell which ones affect your practice before they take effect.

U.S. health care has a patient loyalty problem hiding in plain sight, says a new report based on a survey of 10,000 consumers.

Rebecca Schoon, Ph.D., who helped lead the Oregon arm of a national moral injury report, says patients can see what corporate ownership and insurer barriers are doing to their doctors.

New specialists' schedules fill quickly, the authors of an NEJM Catalyst analysis write, and changing how existing clinicians are used may do more to shorten waits.

In a University of Toronto simulation, AI scribes cut documentation from 36.3% of each primary care visit to 11.2%, though total visit length didn’t change significantly.

A study published in Advanced Science used three AI models to screen thousands of approved drugs, identifying nine that inhibit Streptococcus pneumoniae, a bacterium increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

The second annual Healthcare Workforce Barometer finds employers underestimating how many employees are ready to move, while interest in AI skills cools on both sides.

A dermatologist and a group of physician investors reopened a shuttered 25-bed Florida hospital, and now they want Congress to let other doctors do the same.

HR thinks your recognition efforts are great. Employees would like a word.

Is your recruiting working? Trent Cotton explains how to focus the hiring process to eliminate bottlenecks that cost you talent.

Federal contracts, Medicare pilots and new state laws have pushed artificial intelligence from the edges of clinical practice into the middle of it.

Three health policy leaders argue that strengthening primary care payment isn't an attack on specialists — it's the fix the whole system needs.

Caroline Pearson of the Peterson Health Technology Institute says the way health care pays for clinical AI will decide whether it lowers costs or drives them up.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

Independent primary care is struggling under a payment system stacked against it

The CBO projects about 5.2 million adults will drop off Medicaid under the new rules that begin Jan. 1. Medical Economics spoke with Pear Suite co-founder and CEO Colby Takeda about the CHW workforce states are leaning on to reach them.

Kansas court records reviewed by The New York Times show the practice charged 18% annual interest, garnished bank accounts and pursued arrest warrants over balances as small as $101.

Rigid adherence thresholds in CMS's updated coverage decision leave doctors and suppliers guessing — and vulnerable patients at risk of losing a life-extending therapy

Health care economist Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., says two decades of inflation-eroded Medicare payment, not corporate ownership, is what keeps pushing independent practices to sell.

Since April, confidence in Anthony Fauci has fallen to just 50%, while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unchanged at 38%, in a survey fielded during the Senate contempt vote.

WalletHub scored all 50 states and Washington, D.C., on 16 vaccination metrics. The bottom 10 holds the state with the highest kindergarten exemption rate in the country, and one whose kindergarten coverage is among the highest anywhere.

WalletHub scored all 50 states and Washington, D.C., on 16 vaccination metrics.

Defamation law protects a patient's harsh opinion but not a false assertion of fact, and HIPAA blocks a practice from answering either one with the facts.

Why credence-service marketing must make a physician's clinical judgment visible to patients, not just louder.

Physicians reveal which channels give the most medical misinformation to patients