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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.

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.

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 11th Circuit upheld the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions, and a $541.5 million settlement shows the value of self-disclosure.

Health care economist Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., says state bans on corporate ownership won't keep a practice independent, and that control over decision-making is what separates an MSO partnership from an acquisition.

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.

Neil Baum, M.D., on how Gloria Steinem and the women's movement reshaped who becomes a doctor, and the work medicine still has left to do.

Most practices have no protocol for the hour after a medical error, and Anthony Orsini, D.O., says that gap is what turns a minor mistake into a lost patient and sometimes a claim.

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.

Neil Baum, MD, on why hydration belongs in preventive care for older patients, and the questions that find who is at risk.

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.

A former MedPAC commissioner argues that whether clinicians feel like professionals or like interchangeable parts decides the quality of everything a measurement program cannot see.

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.