In a controversial move, a prominent cardiology clinic in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will now only see patients at UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's in Cedar Rapids, according to a report in The Gazette.
Integration & Physician Issues
The median first-year guaranteed compensation for primary care physicians in 2012 was $180,000, up from $175,000 in 2011, according to the Medical Group Management Association's Physician Placement Starting Salary Survey: 2013 Report Based on 2012 Data.
Just 42 percent of physicians would choose the same specialty if they could go back and start their career over, according to Medscape's 2013 Physician Compensation Report.
From sole-practitioner private practices to vast hospital-employed physician groups, there is an ever-increasing focus on developing and tracking a few simple, diagnostic key performance indicators. From group to group, these indicators may vary depending on the organization's structure and goals,…
Wareham (Mass.) Orthopedic Associates has joined Southcoast Physicians Group, a part of the New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Health System, according to The Wareham Courier.
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Billings (Mont.) Clinic is developing its own internal-medicine residency program, according to a report by The Billings Gazette.
A recent white paper from Coker Group describes five possible arrangements for clinically integrated networks, depending on the entity that is driving the model — at least in the beginning of the CIN's existence.
More than one-third of consumers would be willing to change primary care physicians to save on insurance premiums, according to a survey by HealthPocket.
Downers Grove, Ill.-based DuPage Medical Group, a multispecialty group with more than 370 physicians, has reached an agreement with M&M Orthopaedics to acquire the Chicagoland 26-physician group.
Two physician groups in Colorado have formed an independent physicians association, according to a report by The Colorado Springs Gazette.