Staffing vendor EmCare has reached an agreement with a group of emergency department physicians at Wichita, Kan.-based Wesley Medical Center in which the physicians will become EmCare employees, according to a Wichita Business Journal report.
Integration & Physician Issues
HHS announced $35.7 million in Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act funding to 147 health centers to support the construction and renovation of patient-centered medical homes in health centers.
The portion of physicians who named retirement as their reason for leaving a medical group practice jumped to 18 percent in 2013, the highest level ever reported, according to survey results from the American Medical Group Association and Cejka Search.
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System and Crystal Run Healthcare, a multispecialty group practice based in Rock Hill, N.Y., have created an alliance to achieve the triple aim of better care, better health and lower costs.
Mid-level providers like nurse practitioners and physician assistants are performing millions of in-office dermatological surgeries, and a recent study calls this practice into question.
Advertisement
AnMed Health in Anderson, S.C., will become a branch campus of Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina and take third- and fourth-year students from the school, according to a Greenville Online report.
Physicians with two medical groups have voted to break away from Newton, Mass.-based Atrius Health, according to a Boston Globe report.
Increased Federal Trade Commission scrutiny regarding hospital acquisitions of physician practices culminated in the first-ever antitrust enforcement action of its kind earlier this year. In January, a federal judge sided with the FTC, ruling that Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health…
Here are the top seven most-requested physician searches by medical specialty, according to healthcare staffing firm Merritt Hawkins.
Nurse practitioners, or advanced practice registered nurses, have varying degrees of practice independence, depending on where they practice medicine. Some states allow NPs to practice without physician oversight, for example, while others require a practice agreement between NPs and physicians.