Hip and knee replacements are among the most common total joint replacement surgeries performed in America. With an increased demand and looming costs to Medicare, the CMS has implemented a mandatory bundled payment program called Comprehensive Care ...

Ms. Pinder brings her background as a New York Times journalist to bear on the murky world of healthcare costs.

While thousands of cities and counties have banded together to sue opioid makers and distributors in a federal court, another group of plaintiffs has started to sue on their own: hospitals.

This article summarizes the proposed new Stark Law exceptions and its potential implications for physicians.

Patients are able to receive medical care from multiple sources and providers. What do they prefer?

Thanks to improvements in chemotherapy administration and symptom management, most treatment has moved from the inpatient setting to outpatient clinics, which have proved more patient-centered and able to provide high-quality care at lower cost.

April 16th is National Healthcare Decisions Day, a day that encourages us to proactively put in writing our advance directives – how we’d like to be cared for in the event of a health crisis or end-of-life circumstance – to ease the burden of those d...

Even though online programs and the demand for them are growing, graduate health administration students are still choosing to attend face-to-face programs, even at predominantly online institutions.1 Although graduate health administration students ...

One of those changes that will be necessary to manage is the zero moment of truth (ZMOT)—that moment when a patient first hears about the doctor and the practice and then starts the search process to make a decision whether or not to become a patient...

The peer review process is an important subject for physicians to understand, but one that few physicians understand at a granular level. The difficulty for physicians is that many of the issues presented at peer review are cloaked in legal concepts ...

Join us as Dr. Alperin shares his thoughts on technology and telemedicine benefits for patients and physicians, particularly when practicing amid an infectious disease pandemic like COVID-19.

For almost 20 years, malfunctions and injuries linked to 108 medical devices, including dental implants and pacemaker leads, were funneled into an FDA database that few patients, doctors or even FDA officials knew existed.