Keith A. Reynolds

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

A new Physicians Practice handbook breaks down Medicare's proposed 2027 same-day E/M cut and what modifier 25 claims stand to lose.

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

CMS's interoperability pledge just turned a year old, and the FHIR criteria are live. Here's what to ask your EHR vendor now.

Patients size up your practice before they ever call. Eight fixes for the tools they hit first.

Medicare starts scoring heart failure and low back pain specialists Jan. 1. There is no opt-out, and 9 percent of Part B pay rides on it.

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

Payer algorithms deny in seconds. Eight moves that turn an automated no into a decision a human has to defend.

One-third of adults now ask a chatbot before they ask you. Seven ways to handle the AI patients bring into the exam room.

Days in A/R is the one number every practice watches. These nine show where the money is actually leaking.

Dozens of insurers promised six fixes to prior authorization. A year in, physicians report almost no change, and the harder test arrives Jan. 1, 2027.

MFA and encryption are about to become mandatory under HIPAA. Here are 10 security gaps to close before a breach or auditor finds them.

Charge capture is the quiet leak. Keep an eye on these eight services your practice already performs, and probably never bills for.

Are the systems you retired still on the network? Here are eight steps to shut them down before a regulator or an attacker finds them.

Front desk churn slows rooming, ages claims and burns overtime. These nine moves will help keep the people who run your practice's first impression.

Medicare would pay for RPM and RTM only when practice-employed clinical staff do the work under the CY 2027 fee schedule proposal.

Front-end collections are rising while back-end recovery slides. These moves can get the balance paid while the patient is still there.

The EHR is dark and the waiting room is full. Eight moves that keep patients moving and revenue flowing until systems come back.

Auto-renewals and quiet price escalators keep vendor spend climbing. Ask these eight questions before the contract rolls over.

CMS says its Medicaid Fraud War Room stopped $203 million and flagged 50 providers in 88 days, all surfaced by billing analytics.

Practices collect about 30 percent of what patients owe after insurance, here are six ways to work the pile that already went bad.

Two Aug. 6 sessions tackle flexible staffing and revenue cycle leaks, with practical steps physicians and administrators can use right away.

The clinical note is now the most-read thing a practice publishes; here are eight ways to make documentation work as patient communication.

MGMA's Anders Gilberg on the 1.68% conversion factor cut, budget neutrality winners and losers, and why MVPs worry him.

Providers won the federal fight over website tracking and still face lawsuits, and most practices have never audited their own site.

A new Physicians Practice handbook breaks down the 2027 Medicare fee schedule proposal, with worked math on what practices stand to lose.

Adoption outran governance, and these eight fixes close the gap before the 2027 deadlines land.

MGMA's Anders Gilberg says the cuts land hardest on independent groups, calls MVPs 'MIPS on steroids' and expects any fix to wait for a lame duck Congress.

Health care unionization is rising. Here's how practice leaders can respond to staff organizing legally.

Embezzlers hide inside the practices that trust them most. These red flags should send you straight to the books.