Practice Management News

Primary care is usually a patient’s first encounter with a health care system. But efforts to maintain engagement typically falter after the initial visit.

Mergers and acquisitions have come to private practice medicine during the last 5 years — and in a big way. It would be difficult to find a physician of any specialty in any U.S. location who is not aware of this trend.

PARK CITY, Utah — Physicians can sever ties with difficult patients, but these terminations require communication, documentation and justification, according to a presentation here.

Healio compiled the most-read news in allergy, asthma and immunology posted in August.

As we discussed in our prior blog entry, you can expect that the buyer will require you to agree to non-compete restrictions.

As physicians age, they should consider the reallocation of their assets into increasingly conservative investments to best limit their exposure to loss.

Greater residential levels of fine particulate matter air pollution, especially from agriculture and wildfires, were linked to higher rates of dementia, according to study results published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

As a wife, mother, community specialist and owner of an independent practice, I often am torn in millions of directions — and the pressure can be tremendous.

After you have decided to pursue a sale transaction, inevitably one of the biggest topics you’ll come across during the negotiation phase with the buyer is the non-compete restriction.

In this episode, hosts Shikha Jain, MD, Douglas H. Jones, MD, Amy Comander, MD, Dagny Zhu, MD, Don Dizon, MD, and Mark A. Lewis, MD, discuss the new social media platform, Threads and how physicians can use it for their practice.