Policy

Terminating a provider’s employment with a physician practice is a sensitive process that needs to be handled with care.

A recent $65M False Claims Act settlement highlights physicians' responsibility to provide the best care as well as correctly document and appropriately code it.

Doctors should never be disincentivized from caring for their sickest patients.

Many doctors will be solicited to engage in some kind of income tax avoidance planning this fall.

Representatives can play an important role in keeping physicians updated on proper use of manufacturers’ products. But they can also integrate themselves into practices in ways that violate the law.

Decreasing documentation requirements leads to decreasing reimbursement for the same amount of clinical work.

Providers should evaluate Anti-Kickback and HIPAA compliance simultaneously.

Management service organization (MSO) models can be risky for physicians who may not consider the legality and associated financial and legal risks before agreeing to the arrangement.

Coding expert Bill Dacey reacts to CMS’s 2019 proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule that would collapse office Evaluation and Management code levels-and payment rates.

Here are five reasons why CMS’s proposed Physician Fee Schedule for Evaluation and Management guidelines might improve patient care.

Physicians need to consider what they might need to do in order to repurchase their medical practice-then get those provisions in place before agreeing to the sale.

A recent announcement by CMS for comments may be a welcome reprieve for physicians.

Seven ways to adapt to new regulations coming from D.C. while still managing to treat patients.

This doctor believes the American health care system can and must do better in terms of providing for patients.

The U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory recommending more Americans carry the opioid reversing drug naloxone.

President Trump relieved David Shulkin, MD, as Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), replacing him with White House physician, Rear Adm., Ronny Jackson, MD.

Regardless of what changes are ultimately made to MACRA, the overall market is staunchly marching towards value-based payment models.

A recent poll found that 80 percent of Americans believe drug prices are too high, while only 39 percent have faith in it being fixed.

In part two of this series, attorney, Efrem Grail shares six more tips on how to avoid trouble from the law when prescribing opioids.

As Medicare increasingly emphasizes value-based care, AAFP leadership is guiding primary-care physicians with its new model.

A recent wave of sickness in this doctor's family made her realize how inconvenient it is for many people in this country to be ill.

Despite the great amount of attention paid to the American opioid epidemic, abuse remains at an all-time high. It's time for a new perspective.

An explainer of the AAPA's Optimal Team Practice (OTP) initiative and why it's important to improving care.

One hundred years from the worst flu pandemic ever, we're still failing to fight it off.

A new proposal from the Trump administration aims to improve insurance options for patients, but some are concerned it will just raise premiums.