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A former hospital CEO discusses a solution that probably costs much less than practice leaders may think.

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

Three big payers are moving to shared credentialing through CertifyOS. What it could fix for practices and what it leaves on your desk.

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.

A $20.5 million CVS settlement over web tracking shows how AI and data tracking without patient consent invite lawsuits and enforcement.

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.

About 34 percent of medical groups have built their own tools with AI. Check HIPAA, code ownership and insurance before yours goes live.

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.

Neil Baum, MD, explains how to write a practice mission statement and shares the three commitments his own practice posted on the office wall.

CMS dropped 760,000 marketplace enrollees in a fraud sweep. Real-time eligibility checks keep the fallout from turning into denials.

Florida's proposed school vaccine rule also rewrites DH 680, DH 681 and the Florida SHOTS forms and provider agreements.

Traditional MIPS would end after 2028 under a CMS proposal. Practices that want an MVP for 2026 must register by Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. EST.

Wisconsin APRNs can now apply to practice without a collaborating physician, but Medicare billing rules may still require one.

Someone else configured your EHR. These 18 defaults quietly add clicks, inbox noise and compliance risk to every clinic day.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Neil Baum, MD, offers three tips for new physicians entering practice.

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

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.

AI scribes won't do all your charting. Define their use cases, cut redundant steps and reshape workflows to see real time savings.

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.