Integration & Physician Issues

ProMedica and HCR ManorCare, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation services provider, both based in Toledo, Ohio, have signed an agreement to develop a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center.

Fargo, N.D.-based Essentia Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota have signed an agreement that bases some payments on quality of care, according to a report by Inforum.

About one in three physicians are considering transitioning to subscription-based care, such as concierge medicine, according to a recent Accenture study. However, concierge medicine has caused some concern because it can disenfranchise patients who can no longer afford to receive…

URAC, a healthcare accreditation, education and measurement organization, has released proposed initial standards for accreditation of clinically integrated networks and has asked for input and recommendations from the public.

Humana has distributed more than $35 million to Florida primary care physicians who participated in the Humana Provider Quality Rewards Program in 2011.

The Reading (Pa.) Hospital has changed its name to Reading Health System to better reflect its identity, according to a BCTV report.

Government and private insurers are gradually moving away from encounter-based reimbursement and rapidly developing new payment models that reward coordination of care and population health management. How should healthcare leaders respond? As always, there are options.

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington have opened the Connecticut Institute for Primary Care Innovation on Saint Francis' main campus.

With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in place, the country will need roughly 52,000 more primary care physicians by 2025 to cover the law's preventive care provisions and general population growth, according to a new study from the…

Certain teaching hospitals are upheld as prestigious in terms of residency programs, but a new report from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice reveals some surprising information about these institutions' quality of care and patient safety.