A six-physician primary care practice in Chicago would rather fight than join. Primary Care Medical Associates (PCMA), serving the city's North Side, decided to buck the trend toward consolidation of ...

Medicare beneficiaries attributed to small practices in accountable care organizations (ACOs) achieve greater savings than beneficiaries attributed to large practices in ACOs. Objectives: Alternative ...

Just when small primary care practices seemed headed for the dust heap, recent studies are saying "not so fast." Large practices, with their phalanxes of employed physicians, are rapidly becoming the ...

In the race to put together integrated networks, hospitals and large multi-specialty groups are acquiring small medical practices and turning physicians into employees. The solo or small practice, run ...

Brooke Borel is a New York-based science journalist and a senior editor at Undark. This story originally featured on Undark. A few weeks ago, I received an unsettling email. The staff at my daughter’s ...

SOMETHING didn’t look right with Ms. “Smith.” My patient for 25 years, widowed for the last 10, she had been meticulously coifed, groomed, dressed in her Sunday best — and with an unmistakable twinkle ...

Smaller practices face large cost and time hurdles to implementing electronic health records, including possible closure, according to a new study. Researchers surveyed an expert panel of 15 ...

As value-based reimbursement leads healthcare providers to dig deep for new technologies and create team structures to handle the switch, smaller providers are struggling to cover the costs. But just ...

In the era of data-driven decision-making, large dental support organizations (DSOs) seem to have every advantage: analytics platforms that predict patient trends, streamlined operations, and ...

Choosing to go into private practice or join a large system is one of the biggest decisions physicians have to face. From independence to better pay, there are pros and cons to each. Here is what ...

Barry Melancon is retiring as president and CEO of the AICPA at the end of this month. One of his last presentations in that role was at the Accountants Club of America last week. I have been ...