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…
Integration & Physician Issues
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 &…
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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.
McComb-based Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center has cut ties with five of its employed physicians, ending their contracts, according to an Associated Press report via the Anchorage Daily News.
A new survey finds physician leaders in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry have more forceful personalities, typical of what you would see in business leaders, while leadership in hospitals tend to be more structured, thoughtful, deliberative and cautious.
A proposal before the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners would prohibit physician assistants with doctoral degrees from using the "Dr." title in clinical settings, according to an NJ Spotlight report.
Healthcare reform is leaving more hospitals in pursuit of physician employment and more physicians in pursuit of salaries, but this mutual interest doesn't signal the end to traditional fee-for-service behaviors, according to a New York Times article.