Healthcare Reform

The PBS documentary is an excellent example of how a patient's mindset leads them to healthcare ownership, not just placing that burden on the physician.

This fascinating documentary, about improving care while saving money, can teach physicians - and America - a great deal.

A new PBS documentary presents a revival of an old way of thinking in medicine; one that worked well for America for a period of time.

PAs have always taken a team approach to medicine. That focus is applicable to policy issues as well as clinical ones.

Our fragmented, disconnected, crisis-based medical system where doctors bear no consequence for cost, but liable for everything, is a wasteful money pit.

More retail-based clinics are cropping up across the country. Here's how your independent medical practice should respond.

Two physicians share their insight regarding the quality of care patients receive in retail-based clinics.

Value-based reimbursement programs have arrived. Physicians can react with frustration or adjust their practices to meet the new metrics for payment.

Can a Supreme Court ruling on teeth whitening make the case against physician exclusion in narrow networks, exchange plans, etc.? Perhaps.

Medicare's new value-based modifiers are complex. Here are the important points your practice should know about getting paid for value.

More payers are forming narrow networks and excluding certain physicians from their plans. Here's what your practice should do about it.

Plans offered through the state and federal health insurance exchanges are not the only place narrow networks are cropping up.

Narrow networks have potential negative consequences for physicians who are included or excluded.

As the pressure on healthcare organizations increases, physicians need to mobilize, find strength in numbers, and take a stand if they want change.

A new ranking of best states for physicians to practice by the AAPS has its limits, but provides interesting food for thought.

There are numerous benefits for physician participation in a care-team program to benefit their medical practice's complex-care patients.

The National Physicians' Congressional Health Care Advisory Group has been called to Washington, D.C., later this month. What would you have us say?

Our healthcare system is fragmented, misaligned, full of conflicts of interest, and tragically ineffective. Here are four strategies to fix it.

Understand the ins and outs of a HIPAA breach and, more importantly, avoid them with 12 strategies to enact at your practice.

Getting your medical practice staff - and your patients - involved in the meaningful use process is important to successful attestation.

Outside of an Obamacare repeal, it is nearly certain that mandatory requirements of compliance programs are here to stay. Here's how to prepare.

Seen as a prime solution to reducing healthcare costs, bundled payments are on the rise. Here's how to know if they are right for your physicians and practice.

Bundled payments present "significant opportunities" to surgical practices, according to consultant Jamaal Campbell. Here's why.

In a new Age of Transparency regarding physician-industry collaboration, there are ways to advance medicine and allay patient concerns over payments.

There are several things to consider before making a change from a traditional practice model.