Erlanger Health System, Tennessee, begins a communication and resolution program in response to malpractice claims and measures improvements in care and safety, physician wellness and financials.

How Many Patients Can a Primary Care Physician Treat? According to a study, not as many as required but delegation can lessen the workload.

Within the past decade, healthcare has shifted toward a pay-for-performance model where health plans now utilize tools such as the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) to assess an institution’s performance and patient satisfacti...

This article intends to familiarize clinicians with MACRA, and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System pathway, and provides valuable resources and recommendations for clinicians to maximize reimbursement and succeed under MACRA.

The mental health care of patients should be comprehensively documented in primary care medical records, including coordination of services with other providers.

This is the third article in a series of three that deals in detail with the process of developing physician employment agreements.

Nonprofit hospitals are doing wealth screening on many patients to gauge which most likely to be the source of large donations.

Hospitalists face additional risk of malpractice but it doesn’t have to be this way. Although they increasingly are involved in the care of patients who otherwise would belong to a different line of service.

In this Reader Forum, AAPL readers write letters to us about opioid alternatives and the importance of listening to patients.

Led by physicians, Crockett Medical Center in rural Texas is operating in a limited capacity for an increasingly poor and aging population.

Understanding others—whether a patient, a colleague or a direct report—can make you a better physician leader.

An effective pathway for decreasing the probability of federal violations is a robust physician education program, centered on reducing exposure in high-risk areas.