Practice Management News

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

Medicare Part D spending on prescriptions filled at in-house pharmacies nearly quintupled from 2011 and 2019, topping out at $1.6 billion, with increases concentrated among high-cost drugs, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Precision medicine in rheumatoid arthritis expanded in a small but key measure late last year, when Quest Diagnostics and Scipher Medicine announced a partnership to provide RNA extraction and sequencing services for the latter’s PrismRA test.

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.

Completing medical education and training is a monumental achievement that can launch a successful lifetime career.

A law allowing for medical cannabis research could have far-reaching implications in rheumatology and across the health care spectrum, but there are still significant hurdles to clear before cannabinoids become part of routine care.

Liquid biopsy could provide enhanced information about chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy compared with normally used DNA, RNA and protein assays, according to findings published in Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer.

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

A recent legal battle over copay assistance programs for biologic medications, and whether they must count toward insurance deductibles, have resulted in a positive outcome for patients, according to the American College of Rheumatology.

It’s not too often one sees Feb. 29 on the calendar, which makes it a perfect time for Rare Disease Day, dedicated to recognizing conditions that, in the words of the European Commission on Public Health, require “special combined efforts.”