The American Board of Anesthesiology has appointed Jill Mhyre, MD, of the University of Michigan Health System, to the position of senior editor for the Joint Council on Anesthesiology Examinations.
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The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association highlighted its patient-centered medical home collaborations with providers across the nation at a Capitol Hill briefing on Monday.
A minority of people constitutes a majority of the costs at hospitals, and the same may hold true for spend categories at health systems.
Officials from University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester have reached an agreement with the local United Food and Commercial Workers Union following union protests in the spring, according to a GoLocalWorcester report.
The Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in Houston has been providing accountable care since 1949, employing physicians who collaborate to make evidence-based treatment decisions, according to a Houston Chronicle report.
Illinois' recent legislation that defined charity care criteria for property tax exemptions could be a positive sign for non-profit hospitals in the state, according to a report from Fitch Ratings.
The most common form of on-call compensation for physicians is a daily stipend, according to the Medical Group Management Association's Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey: 2012 Report Based on 2011 Data.