Integration & Physician Issues

Lawmakers in nine states have formally proposed legislation to accelerate the licensing process for physicians to practice in multiple states.

Tahlequah, Okla.-based Northeastern State University plans to offer a new physician assistant program beginning in 2017.

Physicians who reported difficulty in making referrals were also associated with lower career satisfaction, according to a survey published in Cancer.

Only about one-third of physicians (36 percent) would seriously consider a career change to a government-employed practice setting, such as the VA, military or corrections, according to a survey from The Medicus Firm.

Mercy Health-Cincinnati announced Thursday the acquisition of the local Cardiac, Vascular & Thoracic Surgeons, one of the area's largest physician groups.

Allegheny Health Network added 15 physicians to the ranks at Jefferson Hospital in Pittsburgh to accommodate twice-as-many annual births, according to the Pittsburgh Business Times.

Starting the summer 2015, Pittsburgh-based UPMC will launch a kidney transplant program at UPMC Hamot in Erie, Pa., according to a TribLive report.

Nearly one in five insured Americans, or 44 million people, have skipped out on visiting a physician for a general health concern in the past 12 months because of cost fears, according to a survey conducted by Harris Poll on…

Over the last decade, the ranks of licensed nurse practitioners have nearly doubled in the U.S., increasing from 106,000 in 2004 to 205,000 by the end of last year, according to data from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Soon it may be difficult to access healthcare in Hawaii — the state is 700 physicians short of what a comparable-sized community has on the mainland, according to a report from the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of…