Patients and doctors are bypassing insurance for faster, simpler care — a trend highlighting a desire for relief from ...

Dr. Lorna Shanks said she became a primary care doctor because she wanted to care for patients. Instead, she found herself overwhelmed by rushed patient visits, endless paperwork and constant staff ...

With the red tape of health insurance already causing frustration for millions of Americans, doctors are helping to shed light on a common industry practice: downcoding. Insurance companies change ...

Doctors say insurers are automatically downgrading their claims and paying less. Insurers say it’s their duty to prevent overbilling. In the beginning of the year, Dr. Terry Wagner’s office manager ...

Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts for about 10 years. She was happy with the care, although she did start to notice it was harder to get an appointment. This ...

For years, we’ve been told that the healthcare system in America is just the way it is: complicated, inefficient and built more for insurance companies than for actual patients or doctors. But ...

In the beginning of the year, Dr. Terry Wagner’s office manager came to him and said “something weird is going on.” For weeks, the office manager told him, Wagner had been quietly underpaid by the ...

Cash-based clinics, or direct primary care, are becoming more popular as health care spending skyrockets and quality of care ...