Just 25.2 percent of new physicians enter the primary care field after leaving their residencies, suggesting residency programs produce too few primary care physicians to meet the nation's needs, according to a study by researchers at the George Washington University…
Integration & Physician Issues
Paying physicians for their performance on quality and patient outcomes has become popular as the industry attempts to bend the cost curve and improve patient outcomes. But, just because pay-for-performance is widespread does not mean the concept is wholly agreed…
With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act taking full effect in 2014, and with the Baby Boomers set to double the portion of the U.S. population over 65 in the next 15 years, the number of people seeing physicians…
Sound Physicians, a hospitalist organization, is set to provide hospitalist services at Community Memorial Healthcenter, a 260-bed hospital in South Hill, Va.
Thirty-six percent of physicians plan to retire or leave medical practice in the next 10 years, according to a survey conducted by Jackson Healthcare, a healthcare staffing company.
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James LaBelle, MD, was named corporate senior vice president and CMO of San Diego-based Scripps Health in January 2013. As a physician who practiced emergency medicine for more than 25 years, Dr. LaBelle now leads Scripps' 2,600 affiliated physicians and…
Retail clinics could double over the next three years, from the current 1,400 or so locations to more than 2,800, according to a report by Accenture.
The Latrobe, Pa.-based Excela Health Family Medicine Residency Program, offered by Excela Latrobe Hospital, will increase the number of admitted physicians from 18 to 24.
There are numerous factors that are currently placing considerable stress on independent physicians and physician groups throughout the United States. Reimbursement rates continue to decline, as illustrated recently by the recent two percent reduction in Medicare reimbursements in connection with the…
Forty-two percent of practicing physicians are dissatisfied with their job, according to a survey conducted by Jackson Healthcare.