Practice Management

Eight practical steps to govern AI in your practice, from naming an owner to vetting vendors and training your team.

Health care veterans resistant to innovation can create barriers to progress, but converting them from adversaries to allies may be the answer.

For many practices, intake still relies on patients completing forms on arrival. Moving it earlier with digital tools can reduce delays, improve accuracy and lighten front-desk workload.

Physicians boost deal outcomes by ranking priorities, setting walk-away lines, listening well, staying calm and negotiating with support.

After-hours coverage is not the same as reliable access — and the gap between the two is showing up in ED utilization, physician burnout and patient outcomes.

A physician's reflection on a dying friend's perspective shift reveals how gratitude and the lost art of the handwritten note can transform your practice and prevent burnout.

As high-deductible plans shift more costs to patients, practices need stronger front-desk collection workflows before balances become write-offs.

Veradigm’s survey of 360 practice leaders finds operational and financial strain, not clinical concerns, are the top threats to independence.

How one medical group used AI scribing to redeploy scribes into a revenue-generating chronic care management program.

Reps. Miller-Meeks, M.D., and Conaway Jr., M.D., introduce legislation to reform the Medicare Physician Payment System.

A real-world ChatGPT mix-up illustrates why physicians must verify AI-generated responses before trusting them in clinical or patient-facing settings.

These seven scheduling fixes can help practices recover lost revenue and keep patient flow moving.

Bipartisan legislation targeting Medicare Advantage prior authorization has rare supermajority support.

The tools to catch heart failure early exist — now it's time to put them to work.

From clean claim rates to contract negotiations, these warning signs could mean your practice is leaving thousands in revenue uncollected.

America's health care system is broken. Here's what it will actually take to fix it.

Ten tactics that help independent primary care thrive, including better scheduling, stronger doctor online presence and value-based care leverage.

What lessons can health care practices take away from the popular grocery store chain Trader Joe's? There are quite a few.

Prior authorization. Medicare Advantage denials. MIPS. MGMA's Anders Gilberg unpacks the 2026 Regulatory Burden Report's most alarming findings.

Identifying your ideal patient sharpens your marketing, strengthens doctor-patient relationships and drives practice growth.

Shawntea Gordon of Atlas & Perpetua Healthcare on where practices leak revenue and how to build a cost-management framework that sticks.

Warning signs to watch before you offer a medical office manager candidate the job; and why rushing to hire is the costliest mistake.

Struggling with ad hoc reporting overload, OSU Physicians rebuilt its analytics environment from the ground up. Here’s what it learned.

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