Medical Economics cartoon: When mergers go too far

It’s no surprise costs are outpacing revenues. Here are three strategies to bring in more income.

A primary-care voucher model would pay practices upfront for predictable care and leave insurance to cover catastrophic risk, cutting administrative burden and giving physicians time back with patients.

CMS chief says outcomes-based pay can help patients while finally ending physicians' box-checking frustration.

Revenue per patient is a common way to split practice profit. It’s also the wrong way.

MGMA’s 100th-anniversary conference runs Sept. 27-30 in San Antonio, and these 10 sessions put physician contracts, compensation and legal exposure on the table.

A fallback version would make insurers prove upcoding, notify physicians and limit downcoding to 90 days.

MGMA's government affairs staff walked through the fee schedule, value-based care, prior authorization, Medicaid and the year-end fight in Congress.

Two observational studies presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting tie a red meat–derived sugar called Neu5Gc to a 63% higher type 2 diabetes risk. They also link low ultra-processed food intake and guideline-level exercise to lower risk, even in people at high genetic risk.