More than a third of physicians predict their practices will be less profitable (36 percent) in the coming year rather than more (22 percent), according to a new survey of 5,012 physicians from technology company CareCloud and physician-education platform QuantiaMD.

Common misconceptions about staff management often plague medical practices and therefore prevent administrators from making necessary changes. But in reality staff will embrace change if you take th time to explain it and involve them in the process.

Serious illness and financial strain often go hand in hand for patients, but a recent study published in Health Affairs is one of the first to look at the "financial toxicity" of cancer care in particular. The findings: Patients diagnosed with cancer were 2.65 times more likely to go bankrupt than people without cancer.

Not only do physician-led ACOs slightly outnumber their hospital-based counterparts, but they also may be superior at saving money, according to presenters at an ACO summit hosted by America's Health Insurance Plans.

Despite policy analysts calling for more liberal scope-of-practice regulations for nurse practitioners to meet growing demand, new research reveals a nurse-doctor disconnect over giving NPs more professional leeway.