Medscape Business of Medicine Podcast

A religious radio host recently exhorted parents to avoid gay doctors. An ethics expert talks about patients’ right to select their physicians and doctors’ rights to be open about their lives.

ICD-10 will have a huge impact on physicians' daily lives and revenue. It's important to make the transition smooth and be ready, or the practice could end up losing significant money when billing.

Sometimes the wrong staff members are inadvertently doing the wrong things. Hidden office inefficiencies can cost a practice money. Here's how to solve that problem.

Despite challenges to small- and medium-sized practices, there are ways to tap into the unique advantages of smaller practices and ask yourself questions that can bolster your profits.

CMS Administrator Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, and Richard J. Gilfillan, MD, Acting Director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, discuss the final ACO rules and how they will affect doctors.

New noninvasive tests that screen for genetic disease in a fetus can also tell the baby's sex in the seventh week. This could lead to gender selection, but doctors don't need to go along with it.

Bioethicist Arthur Caplan, PhD, offers $10,000 if GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann proves that taking the HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has led to "retardation," as she recently claimed.

An ethics expert says that patients who refuse to adhere to recommended care differ from those who want to but fall short of their good intentions. The way you deal with each could affect the results.

Concierge medicine is gaining in popularity, and physicians claim that doctors are entitled to practice the way they want and patients enjoy this. Ethics expert Art Caplan, PhD, says it's an unfair arrangement.

Tom Coburn, one of 3 physicians in the US Senate, discusses the realities of Medicaid in today's healthcare system and the struggles faced by healthcare providers and patients.