Practice Management

Entering 2017, there was a certain level of trepidation that existed amongst providers, payors, operators, and financiers within healthcare, as uncertainty loomed in regards to the new administration and a potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act. While these uncertainties…

Joseph M. Cohn, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Hill Country Memorial Hospital in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Andrew W. Gurman, MD, the American Medical Association president, gave a speech at the AMA Annual Meeting in Chicago last week, addressing the House of Delegates.

A new article in the Harvard Business Review examined why large national companies — including Walmart and General Electric — are negotiating bundled payments with healthcare providers, oftentimes offering to send employees hundreds of miles away for medical care at…

Medscape asked physicians about their greatest vacations.

Another turn in the McCulloch Orthopaedic Surgical Services, PLLC v. Aetna Inc., could have implications for orthopedic practices in the future, according to the National Law Review.

At least five orthopedic surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston are accused of repeatedly double-booking surgeries, leaving patients under anesthesia longer than they would have been if the surgeon was only focused on one case, according to the Boston…

The American Medical Association teamed up with LexisNexis Risk Solutions to create the Verify Health Care Portal.

Anesthesiologist and pain physician Nicholas Angelopoulos, MD, received around $2 million in a breach of contract and fraud case against his former partners, according to the Chicago Tribune. 

HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, stopped in Nashville, Tenn., to discuss healthcare policy over the past week, according to Local Memphis.