Healthcare Reform

The patient experience is playing a growing role in medical practice reimbursement, physician certification, and payment incentives.

Many medical practices today are sick; it's time to quit avoiding the symptoms and look for the cure.

The concept of population health is straightforward. Achieving it, not so much, because it requires numerous fundamental changes in our delivery system.

The near future for physicians: Dying mom and pop store owners in a big-box health plan, hospital system world trading lab coats for a branded apron.

As use of care teams increases, physicians need to ensure their malpractice policies fully protect them.

Payers can no longer exclude patients due to pre-existing conditions, so they are resorting to other tactics.

Concierge can work for some specialties. But many parts must fit together to find success.

Complying with health reform mandates isn't easy. The wise physician will pick and choose those measures that make sense for his practice.

With the passage of health reform most physicians knew big changes were coming. But little did they realize that they would have more duties and responsibilities.

The scope of practice of new PA graduates today is quite different than it was decades ago.

Big data might lead to cost-savings in healthcare, but it is very costly to begin with.

As VA bureaucrats’ fraud, incompetence, and self-interest is exposed, it vividly illustrates why government should get out of healthcare.

Harvard's Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee state, "Providers must lead the way in making value the overarching goal." Physicians are at the core.

Here are strategies for surviving a potential surge in patients with Medicaid and high-deductible exchange plans.

It hasn’t dawned on Washington that hospitals and hospital systems will never commit financial suicide by reducing volume, and physicians will pay the price.

Physicians must find new ways to ensure they are informed and knowledgeable about healthcare changes and how those changes will affect their medical practices.

The "recredentialing trap," strict payment reviews, and fingerprinting are all underway or on the horizon as ways payers are bullying physicians.

How the health insurance exchanges and Medicaid expansion will affect your practice, and how to prepare.

More patients are turning to concierge medicine to get the healthcare services they want and to maintain their choice of physicians.

Both sides of the healthcare debate are mired in political entropy, stifling innovation and leaving no options other than to cut prices.

Why one pediatric practice that received over $100,000 in increased payments due to an ACA initiative has to pay the money back.

While the effect of the reform law isn't big for me, I'm seeing patients more aware - and not necessarily happy - about the cost associated with their care.

Only one of five surveyed physicians cites reducing cost of care as a priority when that is every payer's first priority.

Regardless of the Affordable Care Act, the way healthcare is delivered and reimbursed will change. Here are five things physicians should consider.

Many articles describe the benefits of health reform, but look closely and it's clear that problems are mounting for physicians and the healthcare system.