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Ransomware, cloud failures and power cuts can take your EHR offline without warning. These 20 steps keep patients moving and revenue flowing.

Vendor proposals itemize licenses and implementation. These 10 costs land on the administrator's desk later, and the biggest never arrives as an invoice.

Nearly 1 in 4 licensed doctors is 65 or older. Few hospitals screen them, and practices often have no checkpoint at all.

Federal regulators are fielding thousands of information blocking claims. These everyday practice habits are the ones most likely to draw one.

Most Medicaid improper payments trace to missing paperwork, not fraud. These nine checks close the gaps auditors keep finding.

MGMA acting CEO Akash Madiah on what members need, what the association must fix and how administrators can stop revenue leaks now.

Heal 360's $20 million settlement over swabs billed as full office visits shows how scribe and template notes can expose any practice.

CMS' 2027 fee schedule proposal would pay for RPM and RTM only when practice employees do the work. Here's what practices should review now.

Payers deny with AI while practices appeal by hand. Taya Gordon on retiring 30-day AR buckets, the benchmarks to watch and a quick downcoding check.

Former Integrated Medical Services CEO Monique Delgado explained how practice leaders can build performance-based physician pay with physicians at the table and why the work starts with the practice's own finances.

Only 5 percent of physicians say they have real leverage with payers. Here is what that group does before it ever sits down at the table.

Four Oct. 29 sessions cover supplemental pay, payer contracts, Kentucky Medicaid and workload pressure for physicians and administrators.

From payer contract homework to a 15-minute morning huddle, these are the moves practice administrators can make after four days of sessions and interviews at MGMA's centennial meeting.

A family physician and practice owner shares the structure, roles and timing that make her team's 15-minute morning huddle work, and how to adapt it to a practice of any size.

A 2027 Medicare proposal would stop paying for RPM time logged by vendor staff and cut device payments. Our handbook walks through what to do.

MGMA's senior vice president of IT explains how administrators can choose technology, win staff buy-in and keep up with cybersecurity updates.

An IDR win isn't a check. Payers have 30 days to pay, courts won't force them to and CMS admits awards are slipping through.

A Utah program allows Nolla Health's AI to prescribe acne treatment within physician-approved limits. Physician review scales back as more patients enroll.

Madison Hynes of MGMA explained what practice leaders should watch as electronic prior authorization and Medicaid work requirements arrive Jan. 1.

One billing vendor's breach reached 626,540 patients. Here's how to limit what outside companies can see in your EHR and how fast they must tell you.

A third of family physicians still spend three-plus hours a day in the EHR after clinic. These fixes pull that work back into the workday.

Don't 'throw everything at it' before examining reasons why patients don't arrive for treatments.

Health care attorney Tatiana Melnik, J.D., says practices adopting artificial intelligence tools should reread their vendor contracts, train staff every week and plan for patients who decline an AI scribe.

Patients are leaving practices without a word. Dan D’Orazio of Sage Growth Partners explains how better access and communication rebuild trust.

Neil Baum, MD, borrows a technique from acting teacher Uta Hagen: nine questions to ask yourself before you open the exam room door.

Medicaid work requirements, new remote monitoring rules and an electronic prior authorization deadline all land Jan. 1, and that's only part of what MGMA told practice leaders to watch.

MGMA's Anders Gilberg says few practices have heard from EHR vendors about the Jan. 1 prior authorization API deadline.

New ICD-10 codes, NCCI edits and Medicaid eligibility limits all took effect Oct. 1. Here's what practices should check this week.

Six national physician organizations warned that claims of AI superiority undermine patient trust, putting new attention on how practices set rules for AI use by clinicians and staff.

Texas laws on offshore records, AI disclosure, portal holds and gold cards are all in force now. Six checks worth an afternoon.

MGMA's Andy Swanson on longer primary care waits, APP hiring, staff raises that fall short and the one number to benchmark in 2027.