Practice Models

Watch this three-minute video to gain a better understanding of how retail-based medical clinics are evolving and how patients are reacting to them.

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.

If your medical practice is concerned about patients' retail clinic use, you may want to consider sharing these recommendations with your patients.

For us, the health insurance companies represent a huge problem. We believe the solution is single payer, and we’re doing something about it.

I hate to think that medicine will become like a cookbook, because there are so many things that just don’t fit inside the box.

CMS' newest shared-savings payment and delivery care model features higher risks and higher rewards. Here's how it differs from current ACO models.

Many physicians compare efforts to initiate policy changes to trying to move a mountain with a shovel, and indeed it sometimes takes just as long.

The new focus on value-based reimbursement models has some wondering just where and how concierge medicine fits into the new paradigm.

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

Medicare's value-based modifier is a new fee schedule adjustment that will reward or penalize physicians for quality of care in 2015.

The recent changes in healthcare are starting to create more uniformity in healthcare models; but do we still need options for MDs and patients?

After converting to a direct-pay practice two years ago, this physician has learned a thing or two and is glad he made the change.

Alternatives to traditional fee-for-service practice come in all shapes and sizes. Here's one physician's unique approach.

Membership medical practices strive to provide patients with more access to physicians. Here, one physician shares how that is affecting his personal time.

Just a few months after opening his membership medical practice, internist Michael Freedman is predicting large growth. Here's why.

Looking to make the leap from an office-based medical practice to an ambulatory surgery center? Avoid these five common mistakes.

If your medical practice is not already recognized as a Patient-Centered Medical Home, it may be time to jump on the bandwagon.

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

CMS' home-care demo appears to cut costs, but medical practices are still waiting to share in savings.

MedStar's house call program reduced total Medicare costs by 17 percent over two years, demonstrating viability of Medicare's Independence at Home program.

Can homebound Medicare patients benefit from home-based care? CMS demonstration project aims to find out.

Our experts at Physicians Practice Pearls have written on a wide variety of practice-management topics, but these eight columns stood out as the gems.

New risk-contracting discussions are now occurring between providers/hospitals and the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

Hospitals go to great lengths to control physicians. They take undeserved public credit for physicians’ work. Curiously, physicians capitulate. Why?