Proper documentation and coding is key to an organization not missing out on missed premiums or incentives under the Medicare Advantage plan. Larry Sobal follows-up on last week’s blog post about this important issue—and how ignorance or mastery of Medicare Advantage can greatly impact organizations.

It’s hard to determine the future path of an organization without a plan. That includes a formal process that takes into account an ever-changing workforce. In Part 2 of his three-part blog series on workforce planning, Joel Sauer examines qualitative measures in health care that can forecast workforce needs.

An alarming number of health systems and physicians are uninformed about the Medicare Advantage program and how it works. That can have harmful and costly consequences, as Larry Sobal explains in this week’s blog post.

Health care is an ever-changing industry—and physicians are a big part of the equation. Faced with an aging cardiology workforce, shifts in productivity and other market forces, health systems and practices have some planning to do. Joel Sauer tackles these issues in part one of a three-part blog series on workforce planning.

The future of health care is alive and well. The best minds in the industry came together last week for MedAxiom's CV Transforum Spring '16 conference in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The sharing of knowledge, ideas and innovation gives me great hope for the road ahead, as we all navigate the complexity of health care's transformation.

Forget about consumer ratings for cars and restaurants. Doctors have also joined the list, and, well, there’s a website for that. Actually, there’s a myriad of websites. These days, everything under the sun is rated and ranked. I’m exploring a recent listing of the best and worst states for doctors to practice medicine.