Medical Economics Cartoon: When reimbursements shrink

Experian Health's State of Claims survey finds 40% of providers have at least 10% of their claims denied, and only 30% recover most of that lost revenue.

Payer enrollment rarely lines up with a new physician’s first day. A week-by-week plan helps practices avoid a revenue gap, handle pending claims and know when the schedule can safely open.

Most physicians face a 2.31% conversion factor cut in January, while CMS pared back its same-day payment reduction and pushed the end of traditional MIPS to 2031.

It appears a record number of doctors won election or re-election in the 2026 mid-terms. Here's who they are.

A pediatrician won a Senate seat in South Carolina, an OB-GYN lost one in Kansas, and South Dakota voters kept Medicaid expansion in their constitution.

Medication bottles, witness accounts and a patient's normal baseline are often lost between the ambulance bay and the hospital bed. Here's what to ask at handoff, how EMS can separate observation from interpretation and why better prehospital record integration matters.

The top news stories in medicine today: A federal order requires every international air passenger bound for the U.S. to attest they haven't recently been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; an Illinois man pleads guilty in a $227 million Medicare COVID-19 test kit scheme; aspirin alone holds up after left atrial appendage closure in a JAMA trial.

Control of Congress, 30 governorships in Medicaid work-requirement states and eight statewide health care measures were on Tuesday's ballot. Here is what each one would change for physicians and their patients.