When to start discussing payments with patients

For practices, care gaps translate to lost volume and revenue as well as the potential for their patients to experience preventable diseases and worsening health.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Kristina Hutson, a product line developer at Availity, about surprise billing events in independent healthcare practices and what owners and administrators can do to reduce the likelihood of their occurrence.

Practices have tools at their disposal that can help alleviate some of the problems that women face with health care affordability and access.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Rachael Sauceman, the head of strategic initiatives for Full Media—a digital marketing agency based in Chattanooga, Tennessee—about how practices can best market their services in the digital realm.

These are the real reasons consumers prefer telehealth, and they might surprise you.

Evidence shows that patients who feel they are not heard or respected by their doctors experience poorer outcomes.