Practice Management News

The number one financial goal for most physicians is getting to a comfortable retirement on their own timeline and with the lifestyle they want.

SAN DIEGO — Survey data from university-age students showed that cost was the highest barrier to dermatologic care, prompting use of at-home treatments, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting.

According to published results, industry payment distributions may be skewed by the 0.1% of physicians in each specialty who were paid more than $1 million from 2013 to 2022.

SAN DIEGO — Patricia Treadwell, MD, FAAD, the John Kenney Jr., MD, Lifetime Achievement Award and Lectureship presenter, offered simple, daily practices that dermatologists can implement to improve health equity for underrepresented groups.

SAN DIEGO — While it did not perform at the level of clinicians, ChatGPT could be used as a tool to improve patch testing efficiency for allergic contact dermatitis, according to a poster presentation here.

In our last post, we saw how rollover equity fits into the overall consideration paid to a selling physician owner of a physician practice.

SAN DIEGO — Since 2014 the number of opioid prescribers and prescriptions among Mohs surgeons has decreased, suggesting practices have evolved to avoid dependency, according to a presentation here.

When I first entered the medical profession more than 30 years ago, I was taken by the amount of trash that was produced in the emergency department where I volunteered.

The CDC published a guide that hospitals can use to reduce the risk for burnout among health care staff.

As we discussed in our overview of the private equity, or PE, physician practice model, the buyer in an acquisition is often a PE-sponsored management services organization that purchases the nonclinical aspects of the practice’s business.