Practice Management

Seema Verma describes state of AI deployment in medical practices for MGMA.

A spreadsheet and the question ‘why?’ are enough to get started, an expert says.

Akash Madiah said work is underway on the local engagement, education and digital improvements members requested, and MGMA recognized its 2026 honorees, including Lifetime Achievement recipient Tracy Bird.

A longtime MGMA analyst outlines the first area of focus to become a top performer.

Experience is one of medicine's most valuable resources. Neil Baum, MD, argues physicians should be judged on competence, not age.

Experience is one of medicine's most valuable resources. Neil Baum, MD, argues physicians should be judged on competence, not age.

Political news staff take in at home follows them to work as anxiety and lost engagement, a new study finds. Five ways to manage the spillover.

The 2026 Healthcare Workforce Barometer measures the gap between what practice leaders think their staff want, and what staff say they want.

Four in five practices already run AI in the front office. Far fewer have written the rules, picked the metrics or named what stays human.

A field guide to the 2026 MGMA Annual Conference agenda, from the Sunday revenue cycle workshop to the government affairs town hall.

Broken equipment, missing charts, no open slots. New PAI survey data hands administrators a punch list of what physicians say is failing.

Portal messages jumped 153 percent in five years while visits went up too. Eleven ways to get the inbox back under control.

The comment window closes Sept. 14, and the same rule already previews what a coding transition looks like operationally.

Retirement planning is not an exit strategy. Here are the four ways physicians leave a practice and what determines which stay open to you.

Florida has no corporate practice of medicine doctrine and skipped the 2026 wave of transaction-review bills. What's left is the Health Care Clinic Act, a fee-splitting statute and whatever the management agreement says.

Recent changes to medical laws in the Land of Lincoln.

Pilot new workflows and technology with a handful of physicians first. Beta testing surfaces the problems before they get expensive.

Before buying another dashboard, run the eight reports your practice management system already generates.

Staff are pasting patient information into chatbots no one approved. Nine steps to pull that use into the open, and into compliance.

More than 400 revenue cycle leaders told Inovalon which workflows send their claims back. The ranking reads as a to-do list for whoever owns the front end of the practice.

How to prepare for when AI changes interactions with patients, staff and vendors

AI scribes reached exam rooms faster than the policies meant to govern them. Nine controls for a tool your practice already runs.

Neil Baum, MD, shares three measurement tools to gauge how pre-visit planning affects call volume, efficiency and productivity.

Jay Bregman of Andel explains how employers are carving high-cost drugs out of the pharmacy benefit, and what happens to a patient's price when the contribution stops.

Buyers judge transferability, risk concentration and what runs without you. Start looking at your practice through their lens years before a deal.