Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital has filed a letter with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to acquire Asheville Neonatology, according to an Asheville Citizen-Times report.
Integration & Physician Issues
Under new legislation passed by New Jersey's legislature, physicians would fill out a survey every two years which could allow the state to access the federal student loan-forgiveness program, according to a NJ Spotlight report.
Maintaining relationships with physicians is an integral component leading to a hospital's current and future financial success. "The only ones who admit patients and provide mainstream revenue to hospitals is the medical staff," says Joseph DeSilva, FACHE, partner at The…
More than 70 percent of nurse practitioners and physician assistants are satisfied with their jobs, according to a recent Jackson Healthcare survey, Advanced Practice Trends 2012-2013: An Attitude and Outlook Report on Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants.
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.
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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.
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…