With the red tape of health insurance already causing frustration for millions of Americans, doctors are helping to shed light on a common industry practice: downcoding. Insurance companies change ...

In the beginning of the year, Dr. Terry Wagner’s office manager came to him and said “something weird is going on.” For weeks, the office manager told him, Wagner had been quietly underpaid by the ...

A week after a cyberattack disrupted insurance processing at pharmacies across the US, health care professionals from Maryland to New York tell CNN that the hack continues to upend their businesses, ...

Physicians face a myriad of financial and legal risks not seen in many other professions, including malpractice lawsuits and personal liability. At the same time, while doctors are among the most ...

A new direct primary care practice in Vandalia is among a growing trend of independent doctors who don’t accept insurance in an effort to provide more personalized care to patients while avoiding the ...

EuDoc offers direct primary care, which involves patients paying their doctors directly, typically a flat monthly or annual ...

Georgia physicians are suffering from two ailments at the same time. On the one hand, they face the threat of frivolous malpractice lawsuits requiring them to practice defensive medicine. To protect ...

In May 2023, Joanna Loewenstein MD opened her concierge internal medicine practice in New York City, the first of its kind at Weill Cornell. Growing up in Long Island, Dr. Lowenstein remembers her dad ...

Dr. Lorna Shanks said she became a primary care doctor because she wanted to care for patients. Instead, she found herself overwhelmed by rushed patient visits, endless paperwork and constant staff ...