Will a prospective payment model allow small and rural practices to survive – and will they have to change how they do business?

Recent CMS rule changes reinforce that operational discipline is increasingly shaping reimbursement

Medical Economics spoke with Monique Delgado, former CEO of Integrated Medical Services, about where salary-only pay falls short, which metrics to tie incentives to and how to change physician pay without eroding trust.

Coding scrutiny, payment gaps and a push for price caps show up across Trilliant Health's annual look at where U.S. health care is headed.

Trilliant Health's annual trends report traces primary care shortages, payment gaps and looming price caps to incentives no single stakeholder has reason to fix.

It's not a patient problem, it's an operations problem, and large practices and health systems need to treat it that way.

HHS finalizes price transparency updates as employers push insurance vendors to open the books.

EBRI data show employer plans pay hospital outpatient departments about twice what physician offices receive for the same physician-administered drugs, and the commercial market has barely begun to address the gap.

Why physicians owe tax on their share of practice profit rather than the cash they take out, and how entity type, footnotes and late K-1s can change the final bill.