This article highlights the legal risks and the due diligence necessary when considering how to manage the agency relationship between physicians and advanced practice providers.

APACHE, which risk-adjusts for acute physiology, age, and chronic health, is a widely used ICU benchmarking tool, and participating institutions identified rising and concerning standardized mortality rates in 2020. Following up on previously reporte...

New data on substance use among adults ages 18-24 suggests that many former teen vapers remain e-cigarette users.

This article examines how a midsize community hospital designed a readmission reduction project with the goal of decreasing readmissions for patients with a primary diagnosis of congestive heart failure.

In this podcast, John Whyte, MD, MPH, the chief medical officer at WebMD, talks with host Mike Sacopulos about his career path and the role of WebMD in providing quality health information to the public.

Although the author’s grandfather founded the oldest pharmaceutical company in Bangladesh, she never expected to follow in his footsteps. Raised in Roanoke, Virginia, she studied international development and law before working first as a corporate l...

Getting your patients to say “yes.” Presenting your treatment plan and getting patients to follow it.

Physician employment contracts are complex and often written to benefit the employer. Consequently, physicians should understand the ambiguities in employee contracts.

Over the last 20 years, there have been dramatic gains for LGBTQ+ rights in the U.S.: gay, queer, and trans individuals fought for and won equal treatment at work, legal marriage, the freedom to raise children, and the ability to openly serve in the ...

The article discusses chronic care management services that are essential for patients with two or more chronic conditions. CMS has designed a care plan that facilitates communication and follow-up according to the chronic care management codes.

There has been a dramatic escalation in the use of utilization review programs in an effort to constrain the surge of rising healthcare costs. Utilization review serves to verify the “medical necessity” of hospital admissions and specific medical pro...

A physician boards a plane and sits down. If there is a medical emergency in-flight, does the physician face moral/ethical/legal risk by acts of commission or omission in relation to the medical emergency?