Physicians who provide medical care for themselves or family risk losing objectivity and letting their personal feelings interfere with what is best for the patient.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute expects the public to help shape its mission to determine the most effective medical care.

Switching to new diagnosis codes would create a significant administrative burden to physician practices at a very inopportune time, the Association says.

The Medicare physician quality reporting system will use participation in 2013 to determine who will be penalized starting in 2015.

The pharmacy chain is operating in-store clinics in Michigan where doctors and patients interact only through an online video screen.

The budgetary shift from winding down military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq could offset the large price tag associated with eliminating the SGR.