Beacon Health System in South Bend, Ind., has started the process to merge with The South Bend Clinic, a group with six facilities and more than 90 physicians.
Integration & Physician Issues
Medical school expansion and development activity has increased the number of individuals graduating with Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degrees, but the number of residency positions has not responded to that growth, leaving newly minted physicians no…
Most hospital executives and materials and practice area managers believe that lack of willingness on the part of physicians and providers is the biggest barrier to achieving clinical integration, according to the spring 2013 edition of "Economic Outlook," by Premier,…
When asked to assign an overall grade to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 30.2 percent of physicians gave the healthcare reform bill an 'F,' according to The Medicus Firm's 2013 Physician Practice Preference & Relocation Survey.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance is taking input from the public on proposed changes to its Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition program.
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More physicians were employed by hospitals in 2013 than in 2012, according to a survey conducted by Jackson Healthcare, a healthcare staffing company.
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…
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.