Practice Management

Although the Congressional Budget Office recently downgraded the 10-year cost of repealing the sustainable growth rate (SGR) to $138 billion, the American College of Physicians (ACP) took to the Hill advocating a phased approach to repealing it and moving to value-based models.

Two out of three patients do not adhere to their care plans. In fact, adherence problems related to prescription medications is so widespread, they are costing the United States $100 billion a year in medication-related hospital admissions.

Although the American Academy of Family Physicians threw support to President Obama’s initiative for Medicaid expansion and Medicare payment reform, across-the-board cuts to graduate medical education (GME) threaten family medicine residency programs.

The basic principles of economics are creeping into health care-supply and demand.As the U.S. health care reform progresses, more than 30 million newly insured patients will be added to the world of healthcare, leaving a small supply of doctors scrambling to keep up with the demand.

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Nearly three-fourths of eligible professionals have registered for the government’s electronic health record (EHR) incentive programs, according to a recent report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The federal government has exceeded its goal that 50% of physician practices and 80% of eligible hospitals be using EHRs by the end of this year.

A new survey of 2.094 physicians who own their own practices found that 58% are not looking to sell. Just 11% said they're looking to sell, while 10% had already sold

App uses cloud-sync technology to send alerts when users miss a medication dose.

Store personal health history data on this portable, waterproof memory device.

Examining a new employment contract isn't as difficult as you might think, according to one recruiter. Here's what to include and what to leave out.

The National Society of Certified Healthcare Business Consultants has released information on medical practice overhead percentages, average monthly charges in accounts receivable, full time equivalent staff ratios, and more in its 2012 Joint Statistics Report of Medical and Dental Statistics on Income and Expenses.

A new Web site is designed to help you and other healthcare providers transition to ICD-10.

Patient education materials from 16 major medical societies all suffer from a lack of readability, making them difficult for patients to comprehend and potentially contributing to poor health literacy, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that doctors and nurses hold vastly divergent views on the quality of care that NPs provide, whether NPs should lead medical homes and whether physicians and NPs should be paid the same amount for providing the same services.

Health policy analyst Jeff Goldsmith talks about why it’ll take more than just higher compensation to relieve the primary care shortage, what needs to happen for direct primary care to take off and why ACOs are "like vegan barbecue.”

Do your patients like you enough as a physician to pay more? Would they switch physicians to save money on their health plan?

A 613-physician survey from consulting firm Deloitte found that 57% of physicians do not use mobile technology for clinical purposes, such as accessing electronic health records, e-prescribing, or communicating to users.

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About half of all working adults were either uninsured or underinsured for at least part of last year-and that doesn’t just include low-income Americans. Nearly 60% of adults with moderate incomes were uninsured or underinsured, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund.

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Beginning at the age of 70, physicians' physical health, mental health, and cognition skills should be evaluated to determine whether they should continue practicing medicine, according to a paper recently published in the Journal of Medical Regulation.

From misunderstandings about the role of healthcare inflation to cost controls in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), three economic myths must be addressed for the healthcare system to function properly, says Theodore R. Marmor, PhD, Yale University professor emeritus of public policy and management as well as political science. He recently spoke with Medical Economics Editor-in-Chief Lois A. Bowers, MA.

The Plustek D430 scanner from Plustek Technology Inc. is designed to help practices transition patient registration documents to electronic health record systems.

Although more medical students are turning to primary care professions again, the marketplace is still expected to face a shortage of primary care physicians in the coming years.

Employing others involves risk, time, and effort for which you deserve to be compensated. You can employ more physicians, but most practice owners need to critically evaluate the financial impact of hiring non-physician practitioners, simply because of the reduced labor cost.

If you are purchasing an electronic health record system for the first time or are considering switching systems, assess the needs of the practice and then consider the different system platforms (cloud- or SAAS-based or server-based).

You might think that a limited liability company (LLC) will just help provide tax benefits. Discover the other benefits that LLCs can provide.

A doctor who makes house calls may seem like something hopelessly old fashioned, but recent surveys indicate that house calls might be making a comeback. Discover what the new house call looks like and how you can use them in your practice.