A recent press release by ECG Management Consultants announced compensation for primary care providers collectively increased, demonstrating the value hospitals and health systems are placing on PCP's role as enablers of population health.
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Nicole Baldwin, MD, a pediatrician in Cincinnati, is facing a death threat and other online harassment after posting a video on social media platform TikTok that was pro-vaccination, according to MedPage Today.
ECG hosts a webinar discussing the trends and strategies of compensation for primary care physicians.
The Florida Department of Health has banned a physician from treating women after he inappropriately touched a patient's breasts multiple times, the Miami Herald reports.
Almost half of physicians would take a pay cut to work fewer hours, according to a survey conducted by Medscape.
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About 13 percent of physicians older than 70 years showed cognitive deficits that would impair their ability to practice medicine during mandatory testing at a Connecticut hospital, according to a Medpage Today report.
A majority of Chicago-based Community First Medical Center's emergency room physicians are quitting and heading to Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers in Evergreen Park, Ill., according to Crain's Chicago Business.
The board of Baltimore-based Morgan State University gave the school a green light to begin evaluating strategic partners to create a new osteopathic medical school, according to a Jan. 9 announcement.
Omaha-based University of Nebraska Medical Center's department of internal medicine created an official, four-physician division for allergy and immunology care and research, it announced Jan. 9.
Alexander Muckerman, from ECG Management Consultants, discusses concierge medicine's popularity among indepedent practice providers.