Evanston, Ill.-based NorthShore University HealthSystem is establishing a residency program for nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
Integration & Physician Issues
Hospital/physician alignment strategies that foster cooperation and shared goals between hospitals and their medical staffs offer significant opportunities for efficiency and quality improvements.
In antitrust cases involving physician practices, damage estimations should consider the cost of providers delivering greater quantities of medical services as well as setting higher prices, according to an analysis performed by researchers from American University and Greylock McKinnon Associates.
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.
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.
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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…
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.