Keith A. Reynolds

Heel pain gets laterality, BRCA gets its own code and liver fibrosis gets a middle stage. The FY 2027 additions your physicians will reach for.

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.

Federal accessibility rules now cover practice websites, portals and online forms. The deadline moved, but the lawsuits and complaints didn't.

CMS cut its final Ambulatory Specialty Model list 16 percent from February. See who is in and how much Part B pay is at risk.

A House hearing put the Patients First Act and four related bills in play. Here is how each would change Medicare pay and practice rules.

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.

MGMA is fighting a 2027 Medicare proposal that would halve payment when an office visit and a procedure land on the same day.

Conifer's 1,037 layoffs and an intensifying Medicaid fraud crackdown are squeezing practice revenue cycles from both sides.

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

Federal decision deadlines hit Jan. 1. An MGMA poll finds 44 percent of practices say prior authorization got slower anyway.

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

The FY 2027 code set lands Oct. 1 with no grace period. Deleted codes, quiet demotions and new laterality rules start denials on Day 1.

Payers must turn on four prior authorization APIs by Jan. 1. Practices have no deadline, which is why most will get nothing from it.

Medicare's comment window on the 2027 fee schedule closes Sept. 14. Here is how to file one that CMS will actually read.

Medicaid work requirements hit the front desk Jan. 1, 2027. What changes at check-in, in billing and when coverage lapses mid-treatment.

MGMA's Anders Gilberg on the 2027 conversion factor cut, budget neutrality, modifier 25 and why MVPs won't ease the reporting load.

You do not need a budget line to thank the people who held the schedule together this summer. Twelve ideas for Labor Day, most of them free.

Nearly 150 medical groups want CMS to fix same-day E/M overlap code by code instead of cutting payment 50 percent.

One line in a payer contract just cut 40% of a Hawaii clinic's panel.

Comments on Medicare's CY 2027 pay rule close Sept. 14. These 10 proposals will cost practices the most if they are finalized as written.

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

CMS blocked $1.6 billion in suspect lab payments, and new rates land Jan. 1. Ten checks to run on your in-office lab first.

Most practices owing back wages never meant to. Here are the everyday pay habits that draw federal investigators and plaintiff lawyers.

Texas SB 1318 applies to noncompetes entered or renewed after Sept. 1, 2025. The statute never defines renewal, and that is the problem.

Taya Gordon on the denials, contracts and documentation gaps quietly draining practice revenue, and how to find them before they grow.

The AMA is pressing CMS to withdraw a proposed 50 percent cut for office visits billed the same day as a procedure.

Federal fraud flags start with peer comparison, and the first consequence is a payment hold. Here's what you need to check in your own claims data.

Fax is still the default in most practices. Here is how to retire the lines one workflow at a time, without breaking your referral pipeline.

A year after the insurer pledge, DrFirst CMO Colin Banas grades the six promises and names the Jan. 1, 2027 breaking point.

Texting is the highest-response channel in your practice and the least governed. Here are 13 rules before the FCC's 2027 deadline.