Healthcare Reform

All but a well-heeled minority and the Obamacare exempted will be facing mega-deductible health insurance in 2014, meaning they are effectively self-insured.

Executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons explains the group’s latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

The best advice for practices struggling with patient collections is to have a plan, make sure everyone knows the plan, and then follow the plan.

Patient visits are by necessity short on time, but that doesn't mean that practices can't take the lead in answering patient questions about health reform.

The newly insured under Obamacare needing primary care may be in the thousands or millions. Either way, primary care is the keystone solution to reduce spending.

As patients shoulder more of their healthcare costs, practices must step up patient payment collections efforts. Here are some tips.

Despite many advantages, the AWV is a free service that virtually no one knows about. Don't miss out on clear benefits to patients and your practice.

CMS reconsiders its move to restrict hospital admissions to physicians only, and reaffirms the ability of nonphysician providers to write admission orders for patients.

Do you know what patients value? If considering a concierge medicine program, that will be a critical question to answer.

While "quality" has been an important buzz-word for practices, it is not the same as "value." Here's how to tell the difference.

A recent interaction with a patient over who should and shouldn't pay copays due to income got me thinking about how income equality affects healthcare costs.

Several solutions to the physician shortage have been proposed. What do you think is the best way to address the problem?

Free health clinics will not only continue to see an increased demand for patients, but they might even take some from private practices.

If your practice has not yet updated its policies and procedures to comply with the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule it could face big consequences.

How one physician transitioned to this new practice model and why he did it.

If your medical practice has not yet seriously considered transitioning to a Patient-Centered Medical Home, it may be falling behind.

Copying and pasting information in your EHR can be effective when done properly, according to AHIMA's Diana Warner.

Political columnist George F. Will discusses America's myriad problems and their solutions, including our excessive healthcare spending and consumption.

As we begin to correct bugs in health insurance exchanges, it is time to also give some thought to reducing the amount paid by each solo physician to get paid.

Penny Noyes of Health Business Navigators discusses the typical components in payer agreements, and those that might cause practices trouble.

Expanding insured without lowering per capita insured spending will expand the already fragile healthcare balloon to inevitable failure.

The one thing Obamacare has done is put everyone in the same boat, a boat called limbo. We don’t really know how it’s all going to work.

Whether the Affordable Care Act, ICD-10, or the Stage 2 rules for meaningful use, look at these changes as opportunities, not obstacles.

Legislation in three states is changing the way physician assistants interact with physicians and patients.

The AWV not only provides evidence-based preventative services and care coordination, but also identifies high-risk over-utilizers of healthcare.