This article offers an overview of the new Medicare reimbursement landscape and specific steps that practices can take to protect revenue streams today and ensure they thrive tomorrow.

MACRA is the next generation of sweeping reform in healthcare legislation. This new rule will drive a mass transition to value-based reimbursement, whereby doctors and other providers will get paid based on the quality of their work and the steps tha...

This article describes the core elements that make up the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and discusses the likely criteria that will be used as the core elements necessary for competitive reimbursement ranking.

In today’s healthcare environment, with changing payment methodologies, understanding the revenue streams for a physician practice is essential to a practice’s overall financial health.

This article covers the basics of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): a shift from paying doctors using a traditional fee-for-service reimbursement model to one that pays according to the value that they provide to their patients, where ...

This article discusses the dichotomy between the need for physician leaders and the need for alternative pathways for medical licensure for nonpracticing physicians who seek leadership roles, including the possibility of a national solution to the pr...

Trends are not expected to return to prerecession growth rates, although there are certain career paths providing greater opportunities for increased earnings.

Physicians provide millions of patients with essential medical care each year on which a dollar value cannot be placed. However, the economic role physicians play in healthcare delivery can be calibrated.

This article offers a framework for current and proposed models being implemented or investigated by the CMS.

This article attempts to provide structure to the plethora of CMS and other sources describing the principles guiding alternative payment models (APMs) creation.

This article explores common myths about clinical coding, identifies ways practices get into compliance trouble, and provides specific avenues to implement an effective coding compliance program.

This article offers guidelines in negotiating for your next purchase.