Practice Management

Maintenance of certification is considered onerous, expensive and its impact on patient outcomes is debatable. The controversy surrounding it has triggered new policy action from the American Medical Association.

If the additional time that you are spending with your patients is for counseling or coordination of care, you can bill evaluation and management codes based on time. Here's how.

A Medical Economics survey found nearly one-third of physicians earn a secondary income. Here's why more physicians are taking jobs outside of their practice.

Avoiding coding mistakes in ICD-10 by highlighting the major changes from ICD-9

Physicians need to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of screening tests and procedures with patients and document the discussions in their records to protect themselves if they are sued for medical malpractice.

Finding the right staff is a continual treasure hunt for practices. Here is a process to follow to help you find top-notch candidates.

A new law allowing medical school graduates who are unable to secure residencies to practice primary care in rural areas has some medical organizations balking.

Two federal appeals court rulings on the Affordable Care Act's insurance subsidies create more confusion surrounding the healthcare law

Gains occur across age groups but are greater in states expanding Medicaid coverage

Despite millions of Americans purchasing health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), new patient visits declined in the first five months.

Many healthcare organizations have little awareness of the risks associated with health IT.

Telehealth services can help primary care physicians reduce chronic pain through better monitoring and reduced opioid use, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Seventy percent of physicians now use electronic prescribing through their EHR, and in 2013, the number of prescriptions sent electronically topped 1 billion, according to the latest report from the ONC.

Patients who gained health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been able to access primary care physicians with relative ease, according to a recent survey by the Commonwealth Fund.

The HIMSS Electronic Health Records Association is urging CMS and ONC not to make the same mistakes with meaningful use as it did with meaningful use 2.

A reader urges Medical Economics to make more clinical information available in the magazine

A reader calls maintenance of certification an example of academic medicine exerting control over practicing physicians.

Halfway through the 2014 reporting year, providers and hospitals are still struggling to achieve meaningful use stage 2.

Kaiser Foundation examines factors affecting program outlays

Fighting with payers over prior authorizations costs millions of hours in lost productivity, but there are ways to improve your chances of winning the battle.

The coming wave of biosensors and wearable devices will be a great benefit to doctors--provided they can make use of the data in a meaningful way.

Fighting with payers over prior authorizations costs millions of hours in lost productivity, but there are ways to improve your chances of winning the battle

This emerging business and clinical need has stimulated the growth of a class of technology that connects patients’ current medical status to physicians and other caregivers in hospitals and primary care practices.

A medical director for a major insurance company discusses prior authorizations, and how physicians and payers can work together

There are many reasons-and many ways-to spread the word about your practice

Do's and don'ts on how to receive payment for pre-operative visits.

As physicians, hospitals and health systems increasingly share patient data between providers and across healthcare organizations, the issue of patient consent becomes critical.

Updated guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association.

Where finances prevent a patient from receiving medical attention, physicians may be tempted to provide the required funds directly to the patient or by waiving the patient’s cost-sharing obligations.

A tax lawyer was challenged by the IRS on the way he was taking advantage of the IRA Rollover Rules. He lost, and now the rules have been modified for all of us.