U.S. healthcare payment policies are accelerating physician consolidation and driving up the cost of care, according to Rick Snyder, MD, president of HeartPlace and chief...

David Eagle, MD, president of the American Independent Medical Practice Association, called the Medicare physician fee schedule “just a fundamental issue”. He said the budget...

A proposal from CMS to cut in half the payment for secondary services performed during outpatient visits is drawing fire from a variety of healthcare...

At Tina Philip’s private family practice clinic in Round Rock, the staff is just her and her office coordinator. They know their patients. Some have...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) – Kentucky is currently facing a critical shortage of nearly 3,000 physicians, leaving more than 100 of the state’s 120 counties...

Independent ophthalmologist Dr. Thomas Stone discusses the threat insurer downcoding poses to patients and independent doctors, and what can be done to address it. Listen...