At the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 9, Jeff Leland, CEO of Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners, discussed differences between physicians and hospital executives, and how relationships between the two can be strengthened.
Integration & Physician Issues
Tampa, Fla.-based WellCare Health Plans has announced it will offer incentives for the use of the patient-centered medical home model in its Georgia Medicaid provider network.
California lawmakers are considering expanding nurse practitioners' scope of care, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
Workplace absenteeism related to poor employee health costs the U.S. economy $84 billion each year in lost productivity, but physicians are least likely to miss work, according to Gallup poll results. Conversely, managers and executives were among the sickest and…
Overall, the number of actively licensed physicians in the United States grew about 3 percent from 2010 to 2012, but some regions of the country experienced greater growth in physician numbers, while some recorded a loss in that time period,…
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The number of actively licensed physicians has grown, but those physicians are also growing older, according to a Federation of State Medical Boards report published in the Journal of Medical Regulation.
The following deals between hospitals and physicians, including acquisitions, affiliations, leasing arrangements and joint ventures, occurred within the last month, starting with the most recent.
The rapid decline of private practice physician groups has dramatic implications for health systems employing physicians in large numbers. As employment has surged, health systems are faced with creating a new operating model to manage the physician relationship and unlock…
Nearly 60 percent of physician practices do not plan to give raises to their staff this calendar year, according to the "2013 Staff Salary Survey," released by Physicians Practice.
Medical schools in the United States are on track for a 30 percent increase in enrollment by 2017, according to the Medical School Enrollment Survey conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies.