Harrisburg, Pa.-based PinnacleHealth System has teamed with Pennsylvania insurer Capital BlueCross to form an accountable care arrangement, an effort to enhance care coordination and patient satisfaction while reducing healthcare costs.
Integration & Physician Issues
There is certainly a push for clinical integration among healthcare organizations of all sizes and types today; and for good reason. Clinical integration has been shown to improve quality and patient service and reduce per capita costs all while coordinating…
Partnerships between physicians and hospitals that stem from accountable care organizations present new administrative and legal challenges for the healthcare industry.
With accountable care organizations on a steady rise across parts of the nation — more than 60 have been created in the past six months — hospital and physician leaders involved in organizations are beginning to consider what is and…
Blount Memorial Hospital in Maryville, Tenn., has announced plans to acquire East Tennessee Medical Group for $24 million, according to a Knoxville News Sentinel report.
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Physicians at hospitals and health systems are mostly engaged with their job, but a recent Morehead Associates survey of more than 1.4 million physicians reveals a slight statistical decrease in physician engagement from 2010 to 2011.
Providers responding to a recent Medical Group Management Association physician placement survey reported the most placements in California (more than 300), Pennsylvania, (292) and Texas (267). The states where providers reported the least number of placements included North Dakota, Idaho…
In a little over six months, the number of accountable care organizations nationwide has expanded to 221, which represents a 38 percent increase from November 2011, according to a June 2012 Leavitt Partners white paper.
Gastroenterologist Michael Finnegan, MD, will join St. Mary's Healthcare in Amsterdam, N.Y., according to a WNYT report.
The American Hospital Association supports a CMS proposal to include certain primary care services furnished by subspecialists in the agency's proposal to increase Medicaid payments, according to an AHA News Now report.