Medical Malpractice

Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri, who was expected to ascend to the influential post, may be challenged by Rep. Steve Chabot of Ohio.

Knowing what questions to ask and legal buttons to push can make your business healthier.

CMS has announced several proposals that will make dramatic revisions in physician payments, Consultation codes will be eliminated and the monies shifted to the E/M codes; imaging, physician provided drugs and other changes...

A health care reform bill will pass Congress this year, and it's taking shape. President Obama spoke to the AMA today, and the public option proposal has a twist. Here's this week's update.

Ensure your contracts, when possible, allow arbitration or mediation to settle disputes. Avoid the courtroom if you can.

"Time" is the limited and scarce resource that physicians fundamentally sell. The current reimbursment system does not consider "time" as a factor in determining work effort, which drives the ultimate reimbursement. Should "time"...

The new MGMA Cost Survey has been released, and it finds that practices are in a crunch between rising operating costs and cost or declining reimbursement. Drug costs and support staff costs are...

Medicare will stop paying the additional cost for services deemed "preventable". Is this fair - can we truly prevent all of the preventable? How should physicians prepare for this and other regualtory pushes...

Proponents of cash only medical practices claim that physicians can lower income, enjoy practice and make a comfortable living. Maybe - but tread carefully, and the numbers are sometimes not the whole story.

A recent poll found that 80% of physician respondents found it difficult to maintain their dual roles as physician and business owner, and 76% of those expect these challenges to become more difficult...

The health care policy debate is stuck in a place that undermines physicians and the nation's health. The real problem is not cost, but value, according to an article in the March 14...

While there have been promises to increase primary care physician reimbursement at the expense of specialists, the changes have been miminal at best.

Today, All Business.com is launching a major expansion of the information and services for the business of physician practices. We are an industry that is in flux, where the foundation of the...

Insurance claims against doctors, nurses and other medical professionals have stabilized for the first time in years, according to the seventh annual Aon Hospital Professional Liability and Physician Liability Benchmark Analysis. While that...

Preliminary results released today from Milliman´s 2006 Group Health Insurance Survey indicate the lowest rate increase in seven years. This is the fourth year in a row in which the rate of increase...