Healthcare Reform

It's time to start embracing the new future of healthcare and the important role of physician assistants versus treating reform like a political football.

The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion means more patients at your practice. Here’s how to accommodate them.

Despite all of Obamacare’s hype, politics, spin, and misrepresentation on both sides, wise doctors can win big.

A recent survey suggests most physicians don't support efforts to move away from fee-for-service reimbursement. Do you?

If you are an independently minded physician, take heart. There is a way to work with new quality standards and still retain your autonomy.

In this podcast, healthcare expert Laurie Morgan discusses key trends and challenges highlighted in our Great American Physician Survey, Sponsored by Kareo.

Patient-Centered Medical Homes are good for healthcare, but medical practices should also be realistic about the model, if it is truly a good fit, and its results.

No one understands what it is to be a patient with a life-changing condition, dependent on the system, until he is.

Many physicians say others are more responsible for reducing healthcare costs than they are. Do you agree?

Physicians must collect payments patients often don’t understand or like and it is going to increase under the Affordable Care Act. The remedy is to add value.

Two elements of the Affordable Care Act - the individual mandate and insurance exchanges - are making news and have implications for physicians.

The polar opposite of marijuana laws, waivers for accountable care acts are allowed at the federal level, but can run into problems in individual states.

Nine of the 32 pioneer ACOs are calling it quits. The problem is execution, not concept.

Health reform will bring more transparency to the physician-pharma rep relationship. Here's how your practice can comply and still maintain business as usual.

How can physicians move from traditional fee-for-service to value-based care? It takes nine steps, says one physician.

In this video, a physician and staff members from a five-physician practice discuss their transition to a Patient-Centered Medical Home.

So one key provision of the Affordable Care Act - large-employer provided health insurance - is delayed. But the true answer to why can be found 200 years ago.

Delaying the employer mandate highlights the folly of trying to fix how healthcare is paid for.

Recent reports of ongoing shortages of primary-care physicians mean we need to rethink a range of options and how specialists can help.

Since 2011, only one in every two or three physicians has attested to the Stage 1 rules of meaningful use. Why should this matter to your practice?

Watch this video to learn how participating in an ACO is affecting physicians and staff at a five-physician practice in Hunt Valley, Md.

Two recent HIPAA violations, and a looming compliance date, mean now is the time to ensure privacy and security policies are in place at your medical practice.

The results of our 2013 Great American Physician Survey indicate how physicians' frustrations with the profession vary depending on practice environment.

No single provider can tackle the challenges that diabetes presents alone. That's why PAs and a team-based approach to healthcare will play such an important role.