Austin Littrell

The survey revives a stalled bill that would end the physician agreements practices maintain for the nurse practitioners they employ.

MGMA Acting CEO Akash Madiah explains where practices leak revenue, why staff retention pays off and two habits administrators can start on Monday.

Vendor proposals itemize licenses and implementation. These 10 costs land on the administrator's desk later, and the biggest never arrives as an invoice.

Kate Atchley, Ph.D., of the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, explains how organizations can develop leaders before promoting them into the role, and the five skills she sees as essential for leading a health care organization.

Family physician Kenneth Qiu, M.D., explains the compliance, staffing and cybersecurity demands that come with growing a direct primary care practice, and why he thinks many stall around five physicians.

Patient Prism co-founder and CEO Amol Nirgudkar explains how practices can use AI voice agents to cover overflow and after-hours calls, and which calls still need front desk staff.

Former Integrated Medical Services CEO Monique Delgado explained how practice leaders can build performance-based physician pay with physicians at the table and why the work starts with the practice's own finances.

From payer contract homework to a 15-minute morning huddle, these are the moves practice administrators can make after four days of sessions and interviews at MGMA's centennial meeting.

Madison Hynes of MGMA explained what practice leaders should watch as electronic prior authorization and Medicaid work requirements arrive Jan. 1.

Minc Law partner Michael Pelagalli explains what a practice should do the moment a fake review appears, from documenting and flagging it to deciding when to call a lawyer.

Health care attorney Tatiana Melnik, J.D., says practices adopting artificial intelligence tools should reread their vendor contracts, train staff every week and plan for patients who decline an AI scribe.

Medicaid work requirements, new remote monitoring rules and an electronic prior authorization deadline all land Jan. 1, and that's only part of what MGMA told practice leaders to watch.

An artificial intelligence vendor contract may cap what the company owes the practice, but health care attorney Tatiana Melnik, J.D., says the people using the tools are the bigger risk.

Six national physician organizations warned that claims of AI superiority undermine patient trust, putting new attention on how practices set rules for AI use by clinicians and staff.

D2 Solutions President and CEO Dean Erhardt explains how practices can catch the administrative errors behind most prior authorization rejections and why staff training on AI can start with a couple of classes a year.

Staff morale after turnover or a merger starts with how the leader shows up each day, says Jon Dorenbos, the former NFL long snapper whose career ended with a heart diagnosis.

Hold times, delayed approvals and denials on authorized care dominated member feedback to MGMA's government affairs team.

he former INXS frontman paired trust, connection, adaptability, focus, authenticity and collaboration with the bands he says model them, then had the ballroom help finish an original song.

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.

MGMA is pushing back on any delay as insurers describe a three-step build.

MGMA's government affairs team walked through the fee schedule, MIPS, value-based care, Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and the year-end spending fight.

Sage Growth Partners CEO Dan D'Orazio explains what capitation and value-based contracts demand of an organization and why physician-led groups are where he sees the most promise.

A practice can look healthy on paper until its best medical assistant quits. BackPocket Talent co-founders Rachel Brace and Nicole Hart explain how career ladders, pay tied to specific skills and retention bonuses can keep staff in place.

Career ladders, pay tied to specific skills and reviews held on a single date can help practices hold on to medical assistants and front-desk staff, according to BackPocket Talent's Rachel Brace and Nicole Hart.

Buzz Health President Joseph Kleiman explains why price checks still fall to staff after the visit and what it would take to put drug pricing inside the EHR.

Anders Gilberg of MGMA walks practice leaders through the same-day payment proposal, the practice expense overhaul and the mandatory specialty model that starts Jan. 1 with no participant list.

A delay would leave practices without the information they need to train staff and test workflows before the deadline, the AMA told CMS.

Rebecca Schoon, Ph.D., who helped lead the Oregon arm of a national moral injury report, explains how visit quotas, noncompete clauses and prior authorization feed the distress costing practices their physicians.

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

A tool that costs little to run can be billed many times over, and Caroline Pearson of the Peterson Health Technology Institute says that math is what makes clinical AI lucrative now and precarious under the next payment model.