Consumer Reports has announced it is publishing ratings of 552 Minnesota physician group practices on their patients' ability to handle cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Integration & Physician Issues
Hospitals across the country are laying the groundwork to become insurers, or at least act more like them, to cut healthcare costs and focus on preventive care, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
About 46 percent of physicians are battling burnout, but one physician says the condition is not a "disease" but a symptom of professional unfulfillment that cannot be cured through higher pay, according to a report in The Atlantic.
Hospitals' acquisitions of physician practices are often rationalized as a strategy to increase efficiency, but a Wall Street Journal report suggests the strategy can lead to higher prices for patients and rate increases for insurers.
Blue Shield of California, Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz County, Calif., and Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz County, Calif., announced a new accountable care partnership.
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Two prominent surgeons have left Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital, severing their ties with the University of South Florida, to establish a new program at Florida Hospital Tampa, according to a Tampa Bay Times report.
BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina and Key Physicians, an independent patient-centered medical home network based in Wake County, N.C., announced they are teaming up to launch an accountable care organization.
A physician practice is cutting ties with Louisville, Ky.-based KentuckyOne Health due to the system's restrictions on contraception and will instead work with competitor Norton Healthcare next month, according to a Courier-Journal report.
Marc Halley, founder, president and CEO of Westerville, Ohio-based Halley Consulting Group, has been working with hospitals and physician practices since 1984. He saw the onset and outcomes of managed care in the 1990s and took some of those lessons…
Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health is shaking up healthcare billing by taking the lead in payment bundling and setting prices for care prior to services rendered, according to Miami Today.