A group of independent physicians and local businesses in and around Orlando, Fla., have joined together to form the Association of Independent Doctors, a trade association, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.
Integration & Physician Issues
Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreens is expanding services at its Take Care Clinics to include management for chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, asthma and others.
California has the highest number of oncologists, according to State Health Facts, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
For hospitals, a strategy to expand market share requires more than adding physicians to the ranks. Hospitals can strengthen their market share by borrowing efficiencies and strategies that have traditionally been mainstays in the retail industry. John R. Thomas, CEO…
Culpeper Medical Associates, a network of six primary care physician practices throughout central Virginia, has joined Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health System, effective April 1.
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Complementary and alternative medicine providers, such as practitioners of acupuncture and oriental medicine, chiropractors, direct-entry midwives and naturopathic physicians, are "generally unrecognized" by, but can fill a greater role in, the national healthcare landscape, according to a whitepaper generated by…
Hospitals, health systems and even insurers have been integrating with physician practices, seeking success under healthcare reform, and an article in the National Law Review breaks down four hospital-physician integration strategies that are evolving throughout the country.
Health insurer Highmark in Pittsburgh has acquired Pittsburgh-based Triangle Urological Group as part of its integrated healthcare delivery network, according to a Pittsburgh Business Times report.
The national sequester, created by the Budget Control Act of 2011, will cut all Medicare graduate education funds by 2 percent, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Centra Health, a two-hospital system based in Lynchburg, Va., has agreed to a five-year deal with Liberty University's College of Osteopathic Medicine to train new medical students, according to a News & Advance report.