Neil Baum, MD, offers physicians a simple ethics check: Could you comfortably explain your decision to a patient or colleague over coffee?

Laws bind, ethics codes guide and morals are personal. Here's why physicians need to know the difference, especially on conscientious objection.

Practices face a 2.31% conversion factor cut, a 20% same-day visit reduction and new E/M modifiers starting Jan. 1.

Two Medicare fraud cases, one over Botox and one over COVID-19 test kits, map the chart and claims gaps practices should audit now.

Democrats won Congress, but the Jan. 1 Medicaid work rules still stand. Here's how to budget your 2027 payer mix around what changed and what didn't.

The federal checklist behind your EHR shrinks Dec. 28. Lock down your contract, MIPS reporting and referral workflows while you have leverage.

Medicare’s monthly bundled codes pay primary care for work between visits. Most practices have not tried them yet.

'Not covered' is now the top denial reason, and UnitedHealthcare's pediatric code lists don't match. Run these checks before Dec. 1.