Patients

Smartphones are making it easier for patients to record conversations with their physicians - sometimes secretly.

While the effect of the reform law isn't big for me, I'm seeing patients more aware - and not necessarily happy - about the cost associated with their care.

Efforts to enroll uninsured patients in Medicaid will continue throughout the year. Physicians need to look at technology to help.

Retail-based health clinics can help ensure patient access to care as more gain insurance, but they also raise price transparency and reimbursement issues.

Attracting more patients to your medical practice and retaining them is easier than you might think. Here are three tips.

Patients' physician family members can help ensure you are providing the best care to patients. But you need to handle the relationship with them appropriately.

Getting patients to understand hospital privileges - and what I can do for them when admitted - is often a difficult discussion.

Here are five key points about Medicare Advantage plans to answer questions and clear up misinformation for physicians.

More than 5 million Americans have signed up for private health plans through the health insurance exchanges. Is your medical practice feeling the effects?

Pulling strings, asking for professional courtesy, whatever you want to call it, it can put physicians in a very awkward position.

In the first 10 seconds to 30 seconds of a patient's visit, you can make a big difference in their satisfaction with your medical practice.

No matter how hard I work or how well I think I'm doing as a family physician, there are still areas where I fail my patients.

Some patients are disqualified from help obtaining health insurance coverage because they simultaneously earn too much, and too little.

My advice to physicians given certain facts is simple: Practice defensive medicine that puts the full range of modern diagnostics at your patient's disposal.

Physicians, physician assistants, and other healthcare professionals have a unique opportunity to help prevent burn injuries.

A recent interaction involving a patient's mother makes me wonder why we can't dismiss family members and if there's a lawsuit on my horizon.

Patient satisfaction has always been important at medical practices, but as healthcare changes it's taking on an even bigger role.

As medical practices strive to provide great care to patients, customer service is sometimes overlooked.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. Cardiology expert Shyla High shares her insight on prevention and action steps.

How to focus on your ideal patient, what their issues are, and what they need most right now.

These highly sophisticated technology innovations can improve efficiencies at your medical practice.

Will the nationwide pharmacy's move to stop selling tobacco hurt or help your smoking cessation guidance to patients? Weigh in and tell us.

A look at some of the smartest technology for physicians today - or in the near future.

Here are three initial steps physicians should take if they find themselves on the receiving end of a payer letter indicating they are being dropped from the network.

A profitable and successful practice will struggle to exist, or at a minimum be unsustainable without a deep knowledge about your ideal patient.

The ACA is creating a middle class that is underinsured, threatening to undermine physicians' ability to improve population health, and to be rewarded for it.

As big a proponent of technology and data as I am, the truth is data has never cured anything and tech can't replace in-person interactions with physicians.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins explains the true cost of uncompensated care and how a healthcare reform coalition is aiding Texas patients and physicians.

The physician-patient relationship can be terminated for any non-discriminatory reason with proper notice. It is best to do so as cordially as possible.

Is compromising privacy ever fair to patients, even in the name of public safety? Weigh in and tell us your opinion.