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• What Breast Cancer Screenings Reveal about Cost Control

  Sometimes changes to cancer screening recommendations are actually just changes to cancer screening recommendations. But sometimes they represent deeper problems and frustrations with the healthcare system.

• Little-Known Medicare Pay Code Change Will Hurt Specialists

  While the theatrics of the reform debate hold the nation in suspense, another dramatic policy change has crept into next year's Medicare physician pay schedule with astonishingly little fanfare.

• Why Do Some Hospitals Successfully Implement EHRs and Others Fail?

  There are pieces of advice I hear repeatedly when talking with technology executives about implementing electronic health records and why some organizations are successful whereas others struggle.

• Do Physicians Have the Time for Quality?

  A study has found primary care physicians have been spending more time with their adult patients compared to a decade ago. However, the corresponding gains made in quality improvement remained sometimes modest, or even flat.

• Why the New Public Option is Better for Physicians

  Physicians may have dodged a bullet with the House of Representatives' passage of healthcare reform legislation on Saturday.

• Pay-for-Performance Participation Can Be Pricey for Docs

  Pay for performance may be the rage, and the future of physician reimbursement—but it doesn't come cheap.