Financial Management

As more variants of SARS-CoV-2 emerge and the epidemiology of the pandemic continues to change, so does the treatment landscape. A review of current COVID-19 treatment options was the top story in rheumatology last week.

One important success factor for physicians when it comes to investing is understanding how they are unlike most U.S. retail investors. Physicians have a level of education, income and, typically, net worth that far exceed those of most investors in our country. It is also important to recognize all investors, regardless of education or experience, are influenced by the media. The combination of these factors can create added challenges for physicians when deciding how to allocate their assets.

Northwest Kidney Centers has named Tonia Campbell, CPA, as its new vice president of finance and chief financial officer and has named Marsha Heaton, MBA, as its new vice president of development.

Bitcoin mining, as well as managing other cryptocurrencies, can serve as an ancillary income stream for physicians, according to Sanjeev Bhatia, MD, an orthopedic sports medicine surgeon at Northwestern Medicine.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Jack M. Bert, MD, discussed the utilization of telehealth, as well as alternative revenue sources for orthopedic surgeons.

Both at the end of the year and in the beginning of the following year, many physicians focus on charitable planning.

Survey data shows that, generally, investors do not understand how much their advisors charge for their services.

Black patients with chronic kidney disease may be less likely to adhere to medical treatment compared with non-Black patients due to the financial burden medical care puts on available funds for basic needs, according to a study.

Male physicians have a greater net worth than female physicians on average, according to a speaker at the Women in Medicine Summit.

“It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.”