Integration & Physician Issues

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Osteopathic Association and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine have, after a two-year effort, agreed to a single accreditation system for the nation's graduate medical education programs. The single…

Physician employment does not automatically lead to physician integration, a new American College of Physician Executives survey found.

Whittier Independent Practice Association, a large physician group that was wooed by Boston-based Steward Health Care in 2011, is defecting back to the physician organization at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, according to a Boston Globe report.

Healthcare reform is meant to make hospitals and physician offices more efficient, but that is proving to have its costs.

McLaren Medical Group, a subsidiary of Flint, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care, plans to purchase Mid-Michigan Physicians, a 70-physiciain multispecialty group based in Lansing Township, according to a Lansing State Journal report.

North Country HealthCare, a publicly supported health center based in Flagstaff, Ariz., is developing a family medicine residency program, which will be the only community health center-owned residency in the state, according to an Arizona Daily Sun report.

Here are eight statistics on types of physician structures within U.S. community hospitals, according to the American Hospital Association's 2014 edition of AHA Hospital Statistics.

For the most part, many physicians expect the rise of incentive-based bonuses to benefit themselves and their patients, according to a survey by The Medicus Firm and MDLinx.com Career Center.

President Barack Obama's budget proposal for fiscal year 2015 includes funding increases for primary care workforce development programs, according to the National Association of Community Health Centers.

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