Editorial Policy
The editorial standards behind doctor.ebiz: how we source and check claims about how healthcare actually runs as a business, from front desks, claims and compliance to the software, devices and biotech deals reshaping care, and the decisions practice owners and health tech founders make about each, who writes here, when we correct or update a published piece, and how to raise a correction with the desk.
This is the editorial policy for doctor.ebiz (doctorebiz.com) — the standards every piece we publish about how healthcare actually runs as a business, from front desks, claims and compliance to the software, devices and biotech deals reshaping care, and the decisions practice owners and health tech founders make about each is held to, written down so you can hold us to them too. It covers who writes here, how claims are sourced and checked, when we revise a published piece, and how to tell us we got something wrong.
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Scope and editorial independence
This policy governs everything published at doctorebiz.com: how-to guides, explainers, ranked lists, head-to-head comparisons, features and opinion, across Practice, Billing, Compliance, Health IT, Devices and Biotech. doctor.ebiz is an independent publication written for Practice owners, healthcare managers and health tech founders. Editorial decisions — what we cover, who we assign it to, and what we conclude — are made by the editorial desk alone.
Our stated editorial voice is deliberate and applies to every format on the site: precise, calm and practical. We explain the business side of healthcare plainly, with the compliance detail a practice manager needs and the numbers a founder will be asked about. Where a piece departs from straight reporting into analysis or opinion, it is labelled as such at the top rather than left for the reader to infer.
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Sourcing and evidence
Every factual claim on doctor.ebiz traces back to something a reader can check: a primary document, a named release or filing, a published data set, or a person who was directly involved. We link to the primary source wherever one exists publicly, and we link to it rather than to another outlet's write-up of it.
Where we are inferring rather than reporting, the sentence doing the inferring says so. Where a figure about how healthcare actually runs as a business, from front desks, claims and compliance to the software, devices and biotech deals reshaping care, and the decisions practice owners and health tech founders make about each is an estimate, we say whose estimate it is and what it is based on — doctor.ebiz does not launder a projection into a fact by dropping the source that made it.
- Primary documents and first-party announcements take precedence over another outlet's write-up of them, on every beat we cover across Practice, Billing, Compliance, Health IT, Devices and Biotech.
- Anonymous sourcing appears in doctor.ebiz only where a named source would face real consequences, and the piece explains why the source is unnamed.
- Vendor-supplied figures, benchmarks, and claims are attributed to the vendor, never presented as doctor.ebiz's own findings.
- Where a topic in Practice, Billing, Compliance, Health IT, Devices and Biotech is genuinely contested, the piece represents the disagreement rather than resolving it by omission.
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Bylines and authorship
Every article on doctor.ebiz carries the name of the person who reported and wrote it. 4 writers currently file for this site, and each keeps a public profile listing their background, their beat, and everything they have published here. 4 of them publish relevant credentials or years of experience on that profile.
Nothing on doctorebiz.com is published under a house byline, a pen name, or an invented persona. If a piece was reported by more than one of our writers, all of them are credited on it.
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Corrections and updates
When we get something wrong, we fix it in place and note the correction on the article itself — what changed, and when. We do not quietly edit a mistake out of the record, and we do not delete a published piece to make an error disappear.
Substantive revisions — new facts, a changed conclusion, a materially rewritten section — are stamped with an updated date on the article. Routine copy-editing that does not change meaning is not stamped.
- Correction
- A published statement of fact was wrong. doctor.ebiz fixes the error in the text and adds a dated note on the article saying what it was.
- Update
- The facts changed after publication, or new reporting was added — common on a fast beat like Practice, Billing, Compliance, Health IT, Devices and Biotech. The article carries an updated date and the new material is marked in context.
- Clarification
- Nothing was factually wrong, but the wording was open to a reading we did not intend. We tighten the wording and note the change on the piece.
- Retraction
- The central claim of a piece does not hold. It stays online at doctorebiz.com, clearly marked as retracted, and the notice explains why — the URL is never quietly removed.
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Use of AI tools
AI tools may be used at doctor.ebiz for research assistance, transcription, and copy suggestions. They are not used to generate published articles, and no piece is published without a named human writer who has read every claim in it and stands behind it.
Responsibility for accuracy sits with the bylined writer and the doctor.ebiz desk, not with a tool. A claim about how healthcare actually runs as a business, from front desks, claims and compliance to the software, devices and biotech deals reshaping care, and the decisions practice owners and health tech founders make about each that originated from an AI tool is worth exactly as much as the primary source we then found to support it — and if we could not find one, the claim does not run.
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Commercial relationships
Some links may be sponsored. Our editors choose what we cover, and no vendor, payer, manufacturer or investor we write about pays to shape a story or see it before it runs. Nothing here is medical, legal or financial advice for your situation.
doctor.ebiz carries no sponsored placements or affiliate links at present. If that changes, every such link will be marked where it appears and this policy will be updated before the first one runs.
doctor.ebiz's full commercial disclosure — the standing notice covering sponsored placements and affiliate relationships — is published separately and linked at the foot of this page.
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Reader redress
If you believe something doctor.ebiz published is wrong, unfair, or missing context that changes its meaning, tell us. Point to the specific claim and, where you can, the source that contradicts it — that is the fastest route to a correction.
Every complaint about accuracy reaches the doctor.ebiz editorial desk and is read. Where a claim is wrong, we correct it and say so on the article. Where we think it stands, we will tell you why rather than leaving the message unanswered.
Our standing commitments
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We report before we opine
Analysis on doctor.ebiz starts from something checkable — a filing, a release, a data set, a conversation with someone who was in the room — and says which it is.
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We correct in public
Mistakes are fixed on the page that carried them, dated and described, rather than edited away. The doctor.ebiz archive stays honest about its own history.
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Coverage is never for sale
No commercial relationship determines what we cover in Practice, Billing, Compliance, Health IT, Devices and Biotech or what we conclude about it, and every paid placement is marked where a reader meets it.
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We write for the person doing the work
This site is written for Practice owners, healthcare managers and health tech founders — not for a search engine, and not for an industry insider looking to be flattered.
Raise a correction or a concern
Corrections, factual disputes, and questions about how a specific piece of doctor.ebiz coverage was reported all reach the editorial desk. We read everything and act on what is checkable. Name the article and the claim, and we will come back to you.