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…
Integration & Physician Issues
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.
For the fourth year in a row, the number of medical school seniors matched with internal medicine residencies in the United States has increased.
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The Children's Medical Center of Dayton (Ohio) announced it has formed a joint venture with Miami Valley Hospital, also in Dayton, to enhance neonatal care.
The number of articles, whitepapers and reports being generated about accountable care organizations is increasing exponentially, with the vast majority covering the nuts and bolts of creating an ACO and exploring various payment strategies. These are all important issues to…
Raleigh, N.C.-based Rex Healthcare has formed a new neurosurgery practice in partnership with three neurosurgeons to expand neurosurgical care offered by the health system.
Many hospitals, health systems and physician groups across the country are pursuing accountable care organizations — as of January 2013, there were 428 total ACOs in every state except Delaware. However, the success of these organizations has yet to be…
Two congressmen have reintroduced a bill that would create pilot projects to test community-based primary care training models, according to an AAFP News Now report.