Physician employment and quasi-employment transactions were among the most frequent types of hospital-physician integration activities in 2011 and 2012, according to the HealthCare Appraisers 2013 report.
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Nearly 40 percent of the nation's physicians — 39.8 percent — reported experiencing at least one symptom of burnout in Medscape's Physician Lifestyle Report 2013, but the causes of their burnout vary.
Clinician use of social media sites for job searching has doubled since 2010, with 42 percent of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied professionals saying they use social media during job searches, according to AMN Healthcare's 2013 Survey of Social Media…
The following six stories about health system and retail health clinic affiliations occurred within the past year, and are just a few of the many relationships that were formalized between these two parties.
Cape Regional Physicians Associates, a multispecialty medial group affiliated with Cape Regional Health System in Cape May Court House, N.J., will join Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield's Patient Centered Medical Home Program Jan. 1.
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Through the new Statewide Residency Program, hospitals in Florida that support residents are eligible to receive a piece of an $80 million appropriation as a supplemental payment for graduate medical education, according to the Florida governor's website.
Here are the 20 states that have the most and the least primary care physicians, including the fields of internal medicine, family medicine and general practice, obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics.
While hospital acquisition of medical groups continues to grow, the rate at which hospitals and independent delivery systems are acquiring medical groups has slowed over the past few years, according to reports from Deloitte and Jackson Healthcare.
There are reasons to be skeptical of the widespread predictions of a physician shortage, according to a New York Times op-ed authored by Scott Gottlieb, MD, and Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD.
Last year, the United States had 260,221 total actively practicing female physicians — representing 31.9 percent of all active physicians in the nation, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges' 2013 State Physician Workforce Data Book.