The financial importance of telemedicine

Six-figure student debt doesn't disqualify most physicians from practice ownership. Here's how lenders weigh cash flow after overhead, debt service coverage and your own production, and how to calculate each before you negotiate price.

A year-end push to protect patient access as the 2027 fee schedule cuts physician pay

CMS scaled back its same-day E/M payment cut in the final 2027 physician fee schedule, but the 20% reduction still costs practices money and patients time. Here's what practices should audit now and what physicians should ask Congress before the lame-duck session ends.

Physician practices are a specified service trade or business under Section 199A. Here's how the 20% QBI deduction phases out, with 2026 IRS thresholds.

Will primary care actually get paid more under the 2027 MPFS? Here's how to get ready for it

American Osteopathic Association leaders discuss the profession’s record growth, its training pipeline and the pressures facing practicing physicians.

A new patient survey finds most people who ran into a prior authorization delay or denial abandoned care, even though nearly half of those who appealed won. Here's what that means for physician practices.

The top news stories in medicine today: The AMA moves against insurer downcoding and says AI can't be licensed as a physician; a Jacksonville pharmacy owner is indicted in a $51 million health care fraud scheme; an NIH study finds every participant carried a gene variant that can affect drug response.