Practice Management

In September, there was a stark decrease in compromised health records, with that figure dropping from 8.8 million records breached in August to 250,000 breached records last month, according to SC Magazine.

Last year, several hospitals came under fire after news broke over hospitals raising prices for patients by 1,000 percent. However, a recent study showed hospitals continued to increase prices this year, despite the negative publicity, according to The Washington Post.

The physicians at Auburn Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash., will likely have a new union at the end of the evening.

CMS' final Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act rule will launch its new value-based reimbursement model under the Quality Payment Program on Jan. 1, 2017.  Dorrie Guest, managing director and physician enterprise and ambulatory services leader at Deloitte Consulting, told…

The healthcare industry has observed an accelerating trend toward the formation of alliances, networks, collaboratives and partnerships. The term Strategic Regional Organization (SRO) has been adopted by an increasing number of parties to refer to these organizations.

The Steadman Hawkins Clinic-Denver joined UCHealth and the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Bethesda, Md.-based Aledade partnered with physicians in Michigan to form a physician-led ACO, Great Lakes Physicians ACO, according to a Midland Daily News report.

After performing total knee replacement surgeries for more than 25 years, Ira Kirschenbaum, MD, found himself under the knife for a knee operation of his own. And his understanding of the process a patient endures, from pre-surgery to pain to…

A new app developed around physician house calls raised $26.9 million in a Series A round of funding, according to the LA Business Journal.

The Doctors Company released a study finding internal medicine physicians are most likely to be sued for high-severity patient injuries, compared to other specialties, according to Medscape.