Arizona Care Network, a collaboration between San Francisco-based Dignity Health and Phoenix-based Abrazo Health, has formed an accountable care collaboration with Aetna.
Integration & Physician Issues
More than half — 68 percent — of physicians still own or have an ownership stake in a practice, but that number is likely to drastically drop soon, according to data from Jackson Healthcare.
University Hospitals in Cleveland has partnered with UnitedHealthcare for an accountable care organization that will launch Feb. 1, 2014, according to a report by The Plain Dealer.
Hospitals are having a difficult time filling their empty physician and nurse slots.
A majority — 72 percent — of Americans prefer to see a physician over a nonphysician provider for their medical care, according to a survey conducted by Iposos, a private research think tank.
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More hospitals are calling on their physicians to take active roles in the community and become the faces that represent the organization to prospective patients and other physicians. As a part of this effort, hospitals are sending physicians out into…
Within six months, the number of hospitals and health systems that joined or created an ACO grew by roughly 5 percent, according to Premier's 2013 Fall Economic Outlook.
The rate of hospitals acquiring oncology practices has increased in recent years, according to a report by Alvarez & Marsal Holdings.
The following states have the most physicians retained from undergraduate and graduate medical education, combined.
Attracting and retaining physicians, especially those in primary care, is an enduring challenge for hospitals. Hospitals have begun deploying a strategy to meet this challenge that, at first glance, might seem surprising: including in the mix of a hospital's employed…