At the Becker's Hospital Review 4th Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 11, Glenn Appelbaum, senior vice president of operations for IPC The Hospitalist Company, discussed various hospitalist staffing models and how switching models can potentially cut costs for hospitals.
Integration & Physician Issues
Healthcare reform and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have affected nearly all aspects of the industry, and physician alignment is no exception.
“Physicians want to get better at the stuff they’re not good at,” said Todd Lang, MD, emergency department medical director at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
From 2000 to 2010, there has been a 32 percent increase in hospital employment of physicians. With such an evident trend amidst the hospital sector, executives and physicians have been collaborating and sharing ideas on the best way to align…
Employing physicians is becoming ever more popular in healthcare, and many markets are competitively seeking out physicians for employment.
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At the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 10, 2013, a panel including Vice President of Truven Health Analytics Linda MacCracken, Vice President of Physician Relations and Network Development at Advocate Health Care Joanne Detch and President…
At the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 9, 2013, President of Pinstripe Healthcare Jill Schwieters gave a presentation titled "Hospital-Physician Alignment: Closing Healthcare Organizations' Capabilities Gap."
At the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 10, Laura Dollison, MD, FACEP, senior vice president of TeamHealth East, gave a presentation focused on engaging physicians to drive high level hospital performance. Dr. Dollison explained that 80…
In the next one to three years, more than half of American physicians will cut back on patients, by reducing hours, switching to concierge medicine, retiring or taking other steps that will result in less patients seen, according to a…
At the Becker's Hospital Review 4th Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 9, Randy Oostra, DM, FACHE, president and CEO of Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica, shared tips for hospitals and health systems to achieve physician engagement.