Practice Management News

President Joe Biden announced that the Treasury Department is finalizing a fix for the “family glitch” in the Affordable Care Act, which will allow more than 1 million Americans to gain or have more affordable insurance starting Nov. 1.

The city of Philadelphia has issued a formal apology for the experiments conducted by the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s to 1970s, according to a press release.

Often, after speaking about taxes at a medical conference, we are approached by a physician attendee who has read that billionaires, like Warren Buffet and Elon Musk, pay less taxes than they do and they wonder how that can be.

Entrepreneurial opportunities for physicians are becoming more important than ever, according to a presenter at the Women in Medicine Summit.

PHILADELPHIA — In this video from Building a Successful Practice – Pennsylvania, Emily Ast, Esq., said asking questions up front when negotiating physician contracts ensures physicians commit to only providing expected services.

Between the loss of income and increases in medical care costs, disabling injuries suffered by high-income physicians can cause financial devastation that far exceeds that of their premature death.

After 2 years of virtual meetings, the fourth annual Women in Medicine Summit will be taking place in person in Chicago from Sept. 16 to 17.

Healio spoke with John D. Scott, MD, MSc, FIDSA, chief digital health officer at UW Medicine, professor of allergy and infectious diseases at University of Washington and medical director at the Liver Clinic at Harborview Medical Center, to learn more about what PCPs can do to help prevent and screen for HDV.

If you are a physician who follows the financial media, amid the stories of gloom and doom, you have likely heard of a new investment strategy being offered by many financial institutions called direct indexing.

The use of oral tenofovir-based PrEP for HIV prevention in hepatitis B-endemic countries and in high-risk populations could “markedly decrease” the number of HIV and HBV coinfections, researchers found in a review.