Why do prior authorizations take so long? Is prior authorization required for emergency services? Why would insurance deny a medication? Melissa Garretson, MD, a pediatric emergency physician at Cook ...

One of the most important factors in determining whether physicians and other health professionals will experience symptoms of burnout is whether they feel valued. But until recently, no large-scale ...

AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...

What’s the news: Medicare Advantage enrollees and their physicians in 2022 saw a larger share of their prior authorization requests denied when compared with previous years, according to a recently ...

The dynamics of effective health care rely on the collaboration and cooperation among physicians and other health professionals. But when barriers to teamwork are present, the consequences can be ...

Accurate and reliable blood pressure measurement is critical for the proper diagnosis and management of hypertension. So much so that a 5 mm Hg BP measurement error ...

At their best, EHRs can give physicians data and tools to care for their patients. But sometimes, EHR design, customization or configuration can contribute to patient harm. Meanwhile, a growing body ...

Although there is wide variation among specialties, all ambulatory care physicians spend a great deal of time working in their EHR—an average of 5.8 hours per eight hours of time scheduled for patient ...

What’s the news: A coalition of physician members of Congress introduced legislation that would reform the budget-neutrality policies applied to the Medicare physician payment schedule. The need for ...

Physicians have guarded enthusiasm for the use of augmented intelligence (AI) in health care, with many seeing it reducing documentation time and administrative burden. But they are also concerned ...

It’s happening. Augmented intelligence (AI), often called artificial intelligence, is already at the point in its clinical application that it is transforming care. Indeed, the list of its ...

Far too many physicians either are not taking enough time off or are continuing to work while they are on vacation, practices that increase their chances of burnout—damaging them, their patients and ...