To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec Overworked and burned out doctors and medical practitioners are becoming a big issue for an ...

Just like the December 2024 continuing resolution, the current budget reconciliation bill fails to address the problem of Medicare reimbursing physicians at below market rates. Without a fix, the ...

A growing number of primary care doctors are going into concierge medicine, meaning they charge patients a flat fee of often a couple thousand dollars a year, or more, to be part of their practice.

Subscribers to the From the Editor texts about stories in the works in our newsroom painted a vivid picture of the medical profession in flux in response to a text about a unionization effort by ...

Over half of U.S. doctors have accepted payments from pharmaceutical or medical device companies in the past decade. While doctors say these payments are for educational purposes, research suggests ...

Medicine may be a combination of art and science, but Microsoft just showed that much of both can be learned—by a bot. The company reports in a study published on the preprint site arXiv that its ...

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 ...

How increased responsibilities and a push to be called “physician associates” are raising tensions with doctors. By Ben Blatt and Teddy Rosenbluth If you wind up at an urgent care center in America, ...

We’ve all been there: You wait 45 minutes in the exam room when the doctor finally walks in. They seem rushed. A few questions, a quick exam, a glance at the clock and then a rapid-fire plan with ...