Practice Management
News
HHS extends deadline for patient access to your clinical notes
Government cites the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason for the delay.
Perspectives
Is ‘Med Ed’ changing for better or worse?
Becoming a doctor no longer looks like it did just a half-decade ago.
News
Patients can read your clinical notes starting Nov. 2
“Open notes” mandates immediate patient access to inpatient and outpatient notes and testing and imaging results.
Opinion
Mastering mask communicating
For those specialties not accustomed to wearing a mask all day, it’s frustrating: How many times have you had to repeat yourself today?
News
Medicare faces calls to stop physician pay cuts in E/M overhaul
A chart in the draft physician fee schedule shows reductions for many specialties that do not routinely bill for office visits.
Commentary
Access to care: A nurse practitioner’s plea
COVID-19 hospital policies are resulting in detrimental access-to-care issues.
Opinion
Full-time, part-time, FTE: Know the differences
While rules vary from state to state, some generalizations can be made.
Clinical Review
How ObGyns can best work with radiologists to optimize screening for patients with dense breasts
Discussions with patients around breast cancer screening typically rest on the shoulders of ObGyns. When a patient is informed...
News
Trump signs Medicare loan relief bill delaying repayments
It includes provisions to delay repayment by physicians of pandemic-related Medicare loans and to reduce the loans’ interest rate.
News
Pandemic poses new challenges for rural doctors
But physicians are adapting and still finding joy in treating patients.