The National Commission on Physician Payment Reform has issued 12 recommendations for models to pay healthcare providers that maximize positive clinical outcomes, enhance patient satisfaction and physician autonomy and incentivize cost-effective care.
Integration & Physician Issues
The recent enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act served as a call to action for health plans to tackle the tremendous cost pressures facing healthcare (which are not directly addressed by the legislation) and to take on…
In a recent Thought Leadership post, Panos Lykidis, MBA, a vice president at The Camden Group, shared 10 rules for hospital and health system leaders to follow when developing physician performance metrics for an alignment strategy.
In Kentucky, roughly 41 percent of hospitals and health systems are losing $100,000 or more annually for each physician in their physician groups, according to a report from Dean Dorton Allen Ford, an accounting and consulting firm based in Lexington,…
Tampa-based University of South Florida plans to launch a two-year master's degree program in physician assistant studies in 2015, according to a Tampa Bay Business Journal report.
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Strong relationships between the hospital and employed physicians start when organizational leaders define their expectations of financial performance and measures of practice success. This sets the stage for others in the organization to launch into practice development efforts. With this…
Physicians have typically been trained to be independent decision-makers focusing on individual patients and episodes of care. The future healthcare environment, however, will require multidisciplinary teams, population health management and care coordination with all members of the team working at…
The National Committee for Quality Assurance launched its patient-centered specialty practice recognition program today.
Bringing on a new primary care or specialty physician is a time-consuming and expensive feat. However, no matter how much time or money is spent during the process, hiring a physician is just half the battle to actually growing an…
In a recent post on athenahealth's Leadership Forum, Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA, dean of the Morsani School of Medicine at the University of South Florida and CEO of USF Health, ponders how physicians have gone "from saints to sinners so…