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Patients accept AI scribes when the conversation is handled right. What the evidence shows, plus a sample consent form.

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

HIPAA treats paid third-party access to patient records as marketing. Without a separate signed authorization, it can carry criminal penalties.

The rules on who can own a hospital are shaping consolidation in local markets, and the evidence behind them hasn't held up.

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

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.

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

Recent changes to medical laws in the Land of Lincoln.

Nearly one-third of physicians get sued. Neil Baum, MD, on the two failures behind many claims and why undocumented consent is no consent.

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.

Vaccine inventory is getting more expensive, the counseling time around it is not reimbursed, and the practices that stop stocking lose more than the margin.

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.

Medicare wants to pay half for the lesser service on same-day claims. Our new handbook works out what modifier 25 encounters 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.

The insurer pledge on prior authorization carried no enforcement. The federal rule arriving Jan. 1, 2027 does, and it lands on payers, on EHR vendors and, through a new attestation measure, on practices themselves.

As reimbursement grows more complex, this session walks through practical ways to close revenue leakage, prevent denials and put AI and automation to work in the revenue cycle.

Practices are being squeezed by staffing shortages, falling reimbursement and administrative creep — this session covers how to add credentialed capacity without stretching the team you can't replace.

Anger in a practice lands on your staff. Neil Baum, MD, on four flashpoints, from the front desk to the billing office, and how to defuse them.

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

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.

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

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

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.