Most hospitals and health systems understand fully integrated physician groups can help achieve results in terms of efficiency and quality of care. However, a recent survey suggests hospital integration may affect physician practice losses.
Integration & Physician Issues
Two East Pennsboro Township., Pa.-based cardiology practices, Capital Cardiovascular Associates and Lewin & Nadar Cardiology Associates, merged and moved to a new local office, according to The Patriot-News.
The University of Missouri School of Medicine, based in Columbia, announced the implementation of a new tool to measure how well third-year medical students practice patient-centered care.
The PPACA provision that bumped Medicaid primary care payments up to Medicare rates expires Thursday, leading to a 42.8 percent average drop in fees for Medicaid primary care services, according to a study from the Urban Institute.
Primary care is available for most Michigan residents, according to a survey from the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation.
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Although poor city neighborhoods are where the sickest people live, physicians and hospitals are leaving these areas to go to more affluent areas, according to a recent Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.
The new Medical College Admission Test launching April 2015 will be seven hours and twenty minutes long, after the first major revision of the exam since 1991, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Ethical dilemmas are not an entirely uncommon occurrence for physicians when it comes to dealing with insurance companies, prescribing placebos and engaging with patients, according to the Medscape Ethics Report 2014, Part 2: Money, Romance and Patients that surveyed more…
Members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission approved a recommendation to maintain the 10 percent Medicare payment increase for primary care after it expires at the end of 2015, according to AAFP.
The survival rate for high-risk patients with heart failure and cardiac arrest is better at teaching hospitals during the two biggest national cardiology conventions, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine.