At a half-day forum at the National Journal last week, American College of Surgeons Research and Optimal Care Director Clifford Ko, MD, discussed the impact of healthcare reform.
Practice Management
An article in American Medical News outlines several questions physicians should ask before joining an accountable care organization or patient-centered medical home.
A recent report in AAOS Now by Andrew D. Markiewitz, MD, discusses how physicians can identify which patients are more likely to sue and focus on mitigating risk.
Despite the prevailing mindset that clinicians should only worry about patients, physicians need to care about costs, according to a KevinMD blog entry by Chicago med school student Sarah Jorgenson.
Physicians can use data extraction tools and technology to demonstrate quality improvements and receive incentive payments as the healthcare industry transitions to pay-for-performance, according to a Physicians Practice report.
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MGMA has presented its annual awards to medical practice professionals who made outstanding contributions to the profession at its annual conference.
According to an MGMA survey, only around 29 percent of medical groups plan to participate as network providers in health insurance exchange programs.
Physicians cannot ignore costs when it comes to patient treatments, and they can start by making the cost of care a less taboo subject to broach, according to a KevinMD.com report.
A recent study in The American Journal of Managed Care found more than half of physicians write their prescriptions electronically, eight times as many who wrote e-prescriptions as of 2008.
An article published in AAOS Now discusses how physician compensation is evolving in private practices.