Recruiting primary care physicians has become a majority priority for hospitals and health systems, and having the right compensation model could help with the process.
Integration & Physician Issues
The demand for temporary physician assistants and nurse practitioners is growing rapidly, according to a survey by Staff Care, a national temporary healthcare staffing firm.
About 70 percent of the nation's physicians are satisfied with practicing medicine, according to the Deloitte 2013 Survey of U.S. Physicians.
An HHS official said the agency's pilot programs for new healthcare delivery and payment models will take up to one year to produce results, according to a Reuters report.
Clinical integration — standardizing clinical practices and processes across providers — can help hospitals and health systems improve quality of care while lowering costs. Rick Lopez, MD, CMO of Newton, Mass.-based Atrius Health, believes clinical integration is a critical strategy…
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Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark has partnered with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and other providers in the area to train paramedics to care for people at their homes, according to a Pittsburgh Business Review report.
Chicago-based Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and its physician group, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation plan to integrate with Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and its physician group, Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group. Their integrated clinical operations will form a new organization, Northwestern…
The fee-for-service model that has allowed hospital-dominated health systems to use capital investments and inpatient market share to garner financial returns is quickly shifting towards a population health and risk-sharing reimbursement model. There are multiple reasons for this shift including…
Physician turnover has hit its highest rate since 2005, the first year the data was collected, according to the 8th annual Physician Retention Survey from Cejka Search and the American Medical Group Association.
Bills have been introduced in the House and Senate that would up add Medicare-supported physician residency positions to programs across the country, according to AHA News Now and Association of American Medical Colleges reports.