Illinois Health Partners, the Downers Grove-based joint venture between Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare and DuPage Medical Group, is expanding through new ties to 500 physicians from Northwest Community Healthcare's physician hospital organization, according to a NCH release.
Integration & Physician Issues
The most cited factor physicians are looking for when it comes to a hospital employer is higher compensation, according to a recent survey by The Medicus Firm and MDLinx.com Career Center.
Though many physicians have become hospital employees through practice acquisitions, they may not be going willingly into employment, according to a new survey.
Physicians in rural areas are more likely to participate in quality improvement activities and discuss the cost of care with their patients than their counterparts in urban areas, a recent study in the Journal of Rural Health found.
For the last 40 years, CMS has been slowly transforming itself from a passive payer to an active purchaser of health care.First there were charge controls (e.g. assignment) and then utilization controls (e.g. SGR), and now there is an active…
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Medical students across the country have until Feb. 26 to select their medical residency preferences, and a recent, first-of-its-kind survey could help, as it identified the top internal medicine residency programs — as ranked by physicians.
A Florida House committee has approved a proposal that would let advanced registered nurse practitioners provide care without physician supervision, according to a CBS Miami report.
Williamsport, Pa.-based Susquehanna Health has affiliated with Cleveland Clinic's Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute, combining Cleveland Clinic's academic, clinical and research components with Susquehanna Health's regional cardiac services.
Physician Practice Management companies are gaining attention again. In 2012, kidney-care giant DaVita bought HealthCare Partners; the combined company immediately started acquiring and partnering with other large practices. Also in 2012, private equity firm Audax Group acquired Advanced Dermatology &…
The following deals between hospitals and physicians — including acquisitions, affiliations and joint ventures — occurred or were announced since the beginning of 2014, starting with the most recent.