Practice Models

To combat reduced and uncertain reimbursements, more specialists are considering concierge. While an option, there are serious issues to consider.

Physicians are feeling the impact of the Affordable Care Act and shifts in payer reimbursements. Concierge medicine might be an option to address these changes head-on.

Doctors can breathe a sigh of relief as a Medicare pay cut of nearly 30 percent is narrowly averted - at least temporarily.

Physicians need to do their own “due diligence” regarding what joining a hospital-owned practice would mean. Here are 10 essential questions to consider.

Growing health IT innovations may put more space between physician and patient, a stark contrast to concierge medicine, which strives for a closer relationship.

The Patient-Centered Medical home is but one survival options for physicians in the Affordable Care Act's new "Ice Age."

Concierge medicine may have its critics, but it is the very essence of American ingenuity to identify a problem, and come up with a free-market solution.

Don't diminish the value of your time as a physician. Concierge medicine can help make the most of that value and realize true patient revenue.

Here’s a look at some of the key healthcare changes occurring right now, and some suggestions for how best to respond.

Looking to mix the best of the ACO and medical home practice models? Look no further than a hybrid concierge model.

Here's a primer on independent practice associations. Not all are created alike, so be aware of the differences.

Yesterday's risk models in healthcare are today's accountable care organizations, but the same issues still exist to find success for physicians and patients.

In our 2012 Physician Compensation Survey, we asked physicians from around the country how - and how much - they're being paid. Here's what we learned.

Touted as a cost-saving, quality improvement measure, bundled payments also have their critics. Here's what you need to know.

Psychiatrist Daniel B. Block lays out his first term as president of the United States of Utopia.

By now you have likely encountered the term "Patient-Centered Medical Home" or PCMH. If you do not yet know what a "medical home" is, think of it this way - these are practices that use care teams to put the patient at the center of the healthcare delivery system.

Relations between hospitals and physicians have never been especially warm. But the hospitals need your referrals and your patients need the services that hospitals provide. So how do you work together?

The election is less than two weeks away, and no matter if the Affordable Care Act is preserved or repealed, healthcare continues to evolve.

The annual physical has come under a lot of scrutiny of late; but doctors need to push back and highlight the real value physicals bring to patients.

Improving physician and staff communication is critical to Patient-Centered Medical Home Success. Here are some tips.

At MGMA12 in San Antonio, Monday’s panelists discuss the changes to which physician practices and health systems must adapt.

Accountable care organizations are the latest magic solution offered by the federal government. Just don’t pull back the curtain!

Patient-Centered Medical Homes seek to return primary care to the hub of care, but I wonder about the benefits for patients and if it truly reduces healthcare costs.

Concierge medicine helps physicians tap into the value of their personal relationships with patients, despite worries to the contrary.

We have a marketplace that often values the time of lawyers more than the care provided by physicians. Something has to change.

The focus of the 2012 presidential election now centers around the future of Medicaid and Medicare.

By the very nature of our healthcare industry there always have been - and always will be - differences in care.

Before ACOs are in full swing, HHS may need to make some tweaks to its current rules on physicians, relationships, and payments.

Amidst healthcare reform, ACOs, and watching primary care colleagues select employment over independence, I wonder whether solo practice is still for me.

Practice Notes blogger Wayne Lipton recently wrote that patients in concierge practices have more respect for their doctors.