For First Time, Physician Practice Owners Are Not the Majority
2016 marked the first year in which physician practice ownership is no longer the majority arrangement.
Uncovering the “Hidden Value” of PAs
If a PA treats a patient but the service is billed under a physician’s NPI number, did the PA contribute any revenue to the practice?
Nurse Practitioner Demand Eclipses Doctors As States Lift Hurdles
Nurse practitioners are more in demand than most physicians as states allow direct access to patients for these increasingly popular health professionals.
As AI Spreads Through Healthcare, Ethical Questions Arise
As AI Spreads Through Healthcare, Ethical Questions Arise
How Your Hospital Can Better Connect with Patients
One of the most important ways to succeed as a hospital is to connect with the patients who receive care at the facility.
Reasons and Ways to Use Gross Motor Equipment in Articulation Treatment
Explore some benefits of using gross motor equipment as a speech-language pathologist.
State Forces Physical Therapists to Wind Down ‘Dry Needling’ Treatment
Therapists’ decade-long practice to end; acupuncturists, other professionals accused them of performing ‘unlicensed acupuncture’.
Texas on Track to Become First State to Explicitly Back Stem Cell Therapies
For years, clinics across the country have been offering experimental stem cell therapies, but no state has given them legal validation—yet.
New FDA Commissioner Gottlieb Unveils Price-fighting Strategies
The FDA can’t regulate drug prices, but it can implement measures aimed at deterring the types of price hikes that have made so many headlines over more than a year.
Millennial Physicians Sound off on State of Medicine Today
Some concerns relate to excessive paperwork, administrative burdens, EHR issues, bureaucratic issues, and government regulations, and medical school debt.