Madelyn Kearns

At the behest of affected patients and providers, Intermountain Healthcare decided to build what it calls a Personalized Care Clinic, an initiative that has the look of a patient-centered medical home, but offers services for a specific patient demographic facing complex, ongoing medical issues.

Operating costs, ICD-10, keeping pace with new technologies and surviving in a world of changing payment models -- those are just some of the challenges of running a modern medical practice.

Primary care physicians have long claimed that the RUC has skewed in favor of specialists, but a new University of Michigan Medical School report says there is no such evidence, which, no doubt, will only add to the contentious debate about the secretive committee.

After months fraught with website glitches and widespread industry opposition, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made public Open Payments, its "new system of records" detailing physicians' receipt of payment and gifts from pharmaceutical companies and other third-party business associates.

As more focus is placed on value rather than volume, employers of physicians are changing their physician compensation models.

Things are looking up for physicians fighting to get their payments from Medicare stable.

Information technology expenditures in medical practices have risen since 2008, spurred by incentives from the federal government.

Doctors may be cost-conscious, but price never trumps patients' best interests.

From the financial pangs at the pointy ends of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to the frustrations and economic hardships courtesy of health information technology (HIT), a new physician outlook survey reveals the top challenges and concerns of physicians today.

A majority of healthcare providers are actively cutting costs in reaction to changes caused by healthcare reform finds a new survey by a supply chain improvement company.