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…
Integration & Physician Issues
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.
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.
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.
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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,…
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…