title: Medical practice today. What members have to say. Rising operating costs + declining reimbursement + EHR implementation = your top challenges.
abstract: We invited you to share your thoughts on the practice and career challenges that confront you today. You responded emphatically to our questionnaire, and two issues--maintaining physician compensation as reimbursement declines, and operating costs that are escalating faster than revenues--essentially tied for first place. The threat of further cuts in Medicare reimbursement makes these dilemmas even more acute. Another issue--implementing an electronic health record (EHR)--ranked third as a hot topic. See the poll data and read the comments and complaints, insights and observations in this special feature all about you and your profession.
authors.affiliation: MGMA Communications and Marketing Department, USA. cpope@mgma.com
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pope
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Margolis
mesh_terms: D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000191:economics*; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States