The American Medical Association's Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee — the group that makes influential decisions in how physicians are paid by Medicare — has added two spots to represent primary care physicians more, according to an American…
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The following hospital executive moves occurred within the past week, beginning with the most recent.
The compensation gap between specialty physicians and primary care physicians continues to grow, as family medicine physicians earned about two-and-a-half times less than interventional diagnostic radiologists, according to a Washington Post report.
In 2010, eight executives and physician leaders from 15 non-profit hospitals in New York's Lower Hudson Valley earned more than $1 million in salary, bonuses and total compensation, according to a Journal News (pdf) report.
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and their subsidiaries reported a profit of $2 billion in the 2011 fiscal year, which was on par with 2010, according to a Kaiser news release.
President Barack Obama's national budget proposal for fiscal year 2013 (pdf), which starts this October, will cut more than $360 billion from Medicare, Medicaid and other health programs over a 10-year span.
CMS has struck down parts of Florida's Medicaid proposal, which state Republicans hope to expand to a completely privatized program, according to an Associated Press/Miami Herald report.
During 2011, healthcare mergers and acquisitions saw 980 deals worth a total of $227.4 billion, an 11 percent increase from $205.6 billion in 2010, according to an Irving Levin Associates report. The upswing in healthcare mergers and acquisitions is likely…
Hospitals and health systems today operate in one of the most challenging environments in the history of the healthcare industry. Regulatory and reimbursement pressures continue to tax facilities, and the growth of government-sponsored healthcare programs further constrain revenues. In response,…
Unless you have been living under a rock, you know hospitals and health systems are implementing telemedicine programs. Virtual health coaches, web consults with specialists, telemedicine hospital rooms and cloud-based physicians are increasingly common. Telemedicine and telehealth have the potential…