Practice Management

Akash Madiah said work is underway on the local engagement, education and digital improvements members requested, and MGMA recognized its 2026 honorees, including Lifetime Achievement recipient Tracy Bird.

A longtime MGMA analyst outlines the first area of focus to become a top performer.

Experience is one of medicine's most valuable resources. Neil Baum, MD, argues physicians should be judged on competence, not age.

Neil Baum, MD, explains how to write a practice mission statement and shares the three commitments his own practice posted on the office wall.

Anders Gilberg of MGMA walks practice leaders through the same-day payment proposal, the practice expense overhaul and the mandatory specialty model that starts Jan. 1 with no participant list.

Experience is one of medicine's most valuable resources. Neil Baum, MD, argues physicians should be judged on competence, not age.

Political news staff take in at home follows them to work as anxiety and lost engagement, a new study finds. Five ways to manage the spillover.

Rebecca Schoon, Ph.D., who helped lead the Oregon arm of a national moral injury report, explains how visit quotas, noncompete clauses and prior authorization feed the distress costing practices their physicians.

Neil Baum, MD, offers three tips for new physicians entering practice.

The 2026 Healthcare Workforce Barometer measures the gap between what practice leaders think their staff want, and what staff say they want.

Four in five practices already run AI in the front office. Far fewer have written the rules, picked the metrics or named what stays human.

A tool that costs little to run can be billed many times over, and Caroline Pearson of the Peterson Health Technology Institute says that math is what makes clinical AI lucrative now and precarious under the next payment model.

A field guide to the 2026 MGMA Annual Conference agenda, from the Sunday revenue cycle workshop to the government affairs town hall.

Broken equipment, missing charts, no open slots. New PAI survey data hands administrators a punch list of what physicians say is failing.

Health care economist Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., says state bans on corporate ownership won't keep a practice independent, and that control over decision-making is what separates an MSO partnership from an acquisition.

Most practices have no protocol for the hour after a medical error, and Anthony Orsini, D.O., says that gap is what turns a minor mistake into a lost patient and sometimes a claim.

MGMA's Anders Gilberg on the 2027 conversion factor cut, budget neutrality, modifier 25 and why MVPs won't ease the reporting load.

A former MedPAC commissioner argues that whether clinicians feel like professionals or like interchangeable parts decides the quality of everything a measurement program cannot see.

Portal messages jumped 153 percent in five years while visits went up too. Eleven ways to get the inbox back under control.

The comment window closes Sept. 14, and the same rule already previews what a coding transition looks like operationally.

Flat malpractice premiums are masking a severity trend running well ahead of inflation, and the cushion holding rates down is running out.

Retirement planning is not an exit strategy. Here are the four ways physicians leave a practice and what determines which stay open to you.

Florida has no corporate practice of medicine doctrine and skipped the 2026 wave of transaction-review bills. What's left is the Health Care Clinic Act, a fee-splitting statute and whatever the management agreement says.

Recent changes to medical laws in the Land of Lincoln.

Nearly one-third of physicians get sued. Neil Baum, MD, on the two failures behind many claims and why undocumented consent is no consent.