Higher use of performance-based payment mechanisms and capitated arrangements is associated with a decrease in the amount of time physicians spend with patients with cancer. Forty-two percent of ...

Some physicians are reconsidering the value of the annual physical, pointing to long waits for primary care visits and studies that indicate yearly physical exams don’t have a clear connection to ...

Patients at skilled nursing facilities who received no visits from a physician or advanced practitioner experienced hospital readmission rates twice as high as those who had at least one visit, ...

Here are 7 interesting statistics and facts about office-based physician visits in 2004 broken down by the eight most common specialty types of office-based physician specialties, as gathered by the ...

Home hospital care recipients who receive remote physician visits have similar safety risks and self-reported patient experiences as their peers who receive in-person physician visits, according to a ...

Annual rates of outpatient visits for mental health and substance use among Ontario physicians increased by 27 percent during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in ...

Physicians often need to work outside of typical clinic hours to complete patient visit notes, and studies have shown this ...

Our hospital employs many nurse practitioners to assist physicians and surgeons. If a nurse practitioner conducts a follow-up visit and the physician also sees the patient, can the physician bill for ...

On July 13, 2021, CMS released the Calendar Year (CY) 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule, which includes several noteworthy proposals related to telehealth, billing for split (or ...