Mayo Clinic Health System has accelerated plans to consolidate birthing centers in Austin, Minn., and Albert Lea, Minn., according to a report from local news station Fox47.
Integration & Physician Issues
New research published in BMJ supports reforms that cap residency work hours at 80 per week.
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals and organizations like ours have been preparing for some major Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) payment rules changes.
The U.S. faces a growing physician shortage — the Association of American Medical Colleges estimates the need to hit 121,900 physicians by 2032 — but the need for physicians is not distributed evenly.
Primary care physicians continue to be in high demand, according to recruitment data from search firm Merritt Hawkins.
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Lack of medical and cost information among patients doesn't necessarily make them worse off than physicians when it comes to choosing the highest-quality service at the lowest cost, according to a working National Bureau of Economic Research paper.
Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia is closing and its 570 physicians-in-training need to find new placements, according to The Philadelphia Tribune.
California will pay up to $300,000 in student loan debt for each of 247 physicians committed serving a caseload of at least 30 percent Medicaid patients for five years, according to The Sacramento Bee.
Implicit bias is still present among many healthcare professionals, with clinicians commonly associating female physicians with family medicine and male physicians with surgery, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
A new law went into effect July 1 requiring California physicians and other healthcare professionals to inform patients in person if they are put on probation for serious misconduct, according to NBC 7.