Practice Management

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.

An article published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined the impact of surgical complications on hospital finances.

Electronic medical billing processes can provide numerous benefits to healthcare providers, including accuracy improvements and cost savings, according to a MedCityNews report. Here are four other benefits of turning billing system electronic.

Medical coders are high-demand positions and the more credentials coders have, the higher average salary they make, according to an AAPC report.

The concept of physician-hospital alignment, also referred to as integration, has captured the healthcare industry's attention for nearly 25 years, since the earliest initiatives were launched in the early 1990s.

Since shortly before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became law, hospital and health system acquisitions of physician practices have picked up, driven by changing reimbursement models, the cost of healthcare reform compliance and the push to align care…

As healthcare in America transitions toward clinically integrated networks financially responsible for providing coordinated care, a critical element for health system success will be the level of true integration with physicians.