Private Practice

The American College of Rheumatology urged Congress to consider multiple reform agendas, including reforming prior authorization and the Medicare physician fee schedule, after a Capitol Hill hearing on the “collapse of private practice.”

Regulatory burdens, resource deficits, reimbursement rates and the growing list of day-to-day business responsibilities have catalyzed a trend of private physician practices selling or transitioning to larger hospital settings.

At first glance, the answer to this question would seem to be obvious.

“The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.”

BOSTON — In this video, Ryan D. Mire, immediate past president of the ACP, detailed his ACP Internal Medicine presentation on how physicians can know their worth and negotiate in private practice.

The landscape of orthopedic surgery practice has significantly changed during the past decade, with a marked shift toward varied employment models over traditional private practices.

Private practice rheumatologists face an increasing array of challenges as large, corporate and academic health systems become the norm for medical care, threatening to bump smaller entities aside.

WAILEA, Hawaii — At Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Jack M. Bert, MD, discussed several paths to success for private practice and employed orthopedic physicians.

Approximately 125 rheumatologists and fellows are set to participate in the first Rheumatology Private Practice Alliance Growth Summit, where attendees will discuss the complicated world of private practice management in the specialty.

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