April 16th is National Healthcare Decisions Day, a day that encourages us to proactively put in writing our advance directives – how we’d like to be cared for in the event of a health crisis or end-of-life circumstance – to ease the burden of those d...

The peer review process is an important subject for physicians to understand, but one that few physicians understand at a granular level. The difficulty for physicians is that many of the issues presented at peer review are cloaked in legal concepts ...

One of those changes that will be necessary to manage is the zero moment of truth (ZMOT)—that moment when a patient first hears about the doctor and the practice and then starts the search process to make a decision whether or not to become a patient...

Even though online programs and the demand for them are growing, graduate health administration students are still choosing to attend face-to-face programs, even at predominantly online institutions.1 Although graduate health administration students ...

Join us as Dr. Alperin shares his thoughts on technology and telemedicine benefits for patients and physicians, particularly when practicing amid an infectious disease pandemic like COVID-19.

For almost 20 years, malfunctions and injuries linked to 108 medical devices, including dental implants and pacemaker leads, were funneled into an FDA database that few patients, doctors or even FDA officials knew existed.

The topic of healthcare coverage is white-hot right now, but the real job of reducing healthcare costs needs to begin now as well. Reducing healthcare costs is an extremely difficult job, one which requires out-of-the-box thinking to succeed. Fortuna...

This article describes the importance of a leadership development program that is designed to meet the unique needs of physicians as they move into leadership roles within a healthcare organization.

Patients face a big problem: When insurers revoke their decision to pay after the service is completed, patients are legally on the hook for the bill.

We propose a patient-friendly documentation strategy that meets the needs of patients, researchers, clinicians, and reimbursement providers alike, via usage of e-years, defined as the volume of e-liquid in mL consumed per day multiplied by the number...

This article details strategies to avoid post-discharge adverse events and prevent frequent and costly hospital readmissions.

This article summarizes the proposed exceptions and discusses proposed changes to the definitions of the “Big Three” Stark Law exception requirements.