Medical billing paperwork and insurance-related red tape cost the U.S. economy approximately $471 billion in 2012, 80 percent of which is waste due to the inefficiency of the nation's complex, ...

It was the most routine of checkups at the doctor's office, the standard drill of peering into eyes, ears and throat, listening to heart and lungs, taking samples for lab analysis. And then the ...

The Biden administration is removing two forms providers need to fill out to get reimbursement for certain durable medical equipment in an effort to ease administrative burden. The Centers for ...

When Dr. Winnie Lau was a medical resident in the 1990s, she made patient rounds with a carousel of charts in binders and hustled down to the radiology department to view X-rays and CT scans. “We ...

Although the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact has the potential to mitigate some of the "data gathering gone wild" aspect of medical licensure, it still requires licensure in each state, ...

Loyalty only goes so far when leadership forgets their employees are human. After years of dedication and declining mental health, one exhausted employee was backed into a corner by a cruel HR ...

For one doctor, insurance-free office means better care for patients, practice. BURNSVILLE, MINN., March 20, 2010 — -- At Dr. James Eelkema's office, there are no insurance cards to show or ...

Health-care reimbursements. Those words are the source of much frustration, dread and procrastination. Many people would choose paying bills, doing their taxes or creating an estate plan over applying ...

The health care system is rolling out the technology, which combines the watch with the AI-powered platform of California-based Notable Health, at Houston Methodist outpatient clinics. By wearing an ...

One of my recent Medscape articles, Medical Licensing: Enough With the Paperwork Already, provoked literally hundreds more comments than any piece I have ever written: 876 comments as of this ...