Dr. Alok Patel hopes to get patients to fess up on bad behavior. — -- April Fool’s is here and everyone has a get-out-of-free card for the most inventive lie. Aside from the holiday of hoax, most ...

If you’ve ever left a doctor’s visit feeling unheard, here's why it happens—and why it’s not because your doctor doesn’t care ...

"Physicians are often accused of providing too much care to elderly patients at the end of life, but there's evidence that these patients also get far too little care before reaching that point," a ...

As a health policy professional who has spent nearly two decades working in health care quality measurement—much of it at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and private payers—I (Ma) ...

Contracts with so-called restrictive covenants are now common in medicine. This is a Kaiser Health News story. When Don Cue developed a bladder infection last fall, he called his longtime urologist’s ...

On a frigid November night in 2018, Michelle Sullivan came home from dinner with friends, took the dog out, and suddenly felt something off. “I walked outside, and I could feel my heart go into an odd ...

Physicians receive lower payments for taking care of Black and Hispanic patients than white patients, according to a new ...

In 2017, Matthew Williams, a thirtysomething software engineer with an athletic build and a bald head, went for a long bike ride in the hills of San Francisco. Afterward, at dinner with some friends, ...

Just like the December 2024 continuing resolution, the current budget reconciliation bill fails to address the problem of Medicare reimbursing physicians at below market rates. Without a fix, the ...

The IGMC inquiry committee concluded that both the doctor and the patient shared responsibility for the altercation.