Pittsburgh-based West Penn Alleghany Health System and insurance company Highmark have "lured" six physicians from UPMC in the past six months — a small portion of the system's 3,200 physicians, but a development that suggests a shift in a traditionally…
Integration & Physician Issues
The following affiliations or developments between hospitals, health systems and physician groups took place within the past month, beginning with the most recent.
Access to primary care physicians in Massachusetts remains the most volatile of medical specialties surveyed, according to a study from the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Mission Internal Medical Group in Mission Viejo, Calif., has affiliated with Orange, Calif.-based St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare, according to an OC Metro report.
San Francisco-based Dignity Health and Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems have announced plans for their Arizona hospitals to form an accountable care organization and file for participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
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Iowa Health System, based in Des Moines, Iowa, has graduated the first classes of its Physician Leadership Academy and Management Leadership Academy, which launched in 2010 and 2011, respectively.
The Premier healthcare alliance launched a new collaborative to help health systems apply for the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's patient-centered medical home program has nearly tripled in size since it launched in 2009, and the growth is punctuated by the payor's latest designation of 994 practices as PCMHs.
Roughly 31 percent of physicians in a sample of 4,326 said they would not accept new Medicaid patients in 2011, with most attributing this decision to the payor's low reimbursement, according to a new study published in Health Affairs.
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto announced (pdf) the filing of a lawsuit and a settlement against Reno, Nev.-based Renown Health regarding its acquisition of the two largest cardiology practices in Reno.