In a June survey from reputation management company rater8, 55% of adults said they had walked away from at least one physician because of something they read online. When one of those reviews is fake…
D2 Solutions' survey, "Patient Access Barriers 2026," found that 21% of patients delayed starting a prescribed medication because of confusion or access problems, and 47% said a lack of transparency…
Nearly two decades into the push toward value-based care, Dan D'Orazio says the industry isn't much further along than it was when the effort began. He says value-based programs are still pegged to…
In a Buzz Health survey of prescribers, 54% said patients often or very often fail to start therapy because of cost, but only 17% said prescription abandonment is highly visible in their workflows.…
Public comments on Medicare's proposed 2027 physician fee schedule closed Sept. 14 with a provision on the table that would pay 50% for one of two services when a patient gets an office visit and a…
In a national survey of more than 1,200 practicing physicians, 47% said they often or always lacked the time to give patients optimal care, and 27% said they had already left a job because of moral…
A clinical artificial intelligence (AI) tool costs little to run and can be billed many times over, while fee-for-service rates are set on the clinician time and effort a service is expected to take.…
Thirty-three states now restrict the corporate practice of medicine to some degree, and lawmakers in several more are moving to tighten those limits. Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., says the crackdown is…
Fewer than half of physicians know the exact steps to take when a medical error occurs, according to a survey cited by Anthony Orsini, D.O. That gap, he argues, is where malpractice claims begin.…
Lawrence Casalino, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., practiced primary care for 20 years before spending six on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. In his recent New England Journal of Medicine essay,…
