In a session at the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting, Valinda Rutledge, director of the Patient Care Models Group at CMS' Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, discussed several current CMS initiatives aimed at improving healthcare quality at lower costs…
Integration & Physician Issues
In a session at the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 17, Paul Summerside, MD, CMO at BayCare Clinic in Green Bay, Wis.; Chris Karam, president & CEO of CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System in Texarkana, Texas;…
Jackson, Mich.-based Allegiance Health is developing a graduate medical education program expected to bring 140 new physicians into the community, extending the hospital's physician workforce by 35 percent, according to an MLive report.
Many recent medical school graduates have negative views of their future day-to-day work lives as physicians, according to results from a multi-school study led by the University of Michigan Health System.
The Joint Replacement Institute of Hartford, Conn.-based St. Francis Hospital is teaming up with Farmington, Conn-based insurer Connecticare to form a collaborative care pact aimed at coordinating treatment for total hip and knee replacement surgeries, according to a Hartford Business…
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Leaders in an accountable care model in Sacramento, Calif. — including Blue Shield of California, the California Public Employees Retirement System (the purchaser), Hill Physicians Medical Group and Sacramento-area hospitals owned by San Francisco-based Dignity Health (formerly Catholic Healthcare West)…
"The healthcare industry looks eerily akin to a bubble economy," says John Toussaint, MD, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value in Appleton, Wis. and CEO emeritus of ThedaCare. The country spends $2.5 trillion annually on healthcare, which accounts…
Although overall physician engagement took a slight hit last year, more physicians in 2011 believed their organizations would be successful in the coming years compared with 2010, according to results from "The State of Staff Physician Engagement: 2011 in Review."
Manchester, Md.-based multispecialty physician group the Carroll Health Group has received patient-centered medical home recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance, according to a Carroll County Times report.
There are several catalysts driving the healthcare industry's push for new payment models such as the prospect of a more competitive insurance market — if insurance exchanges develop as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; clinical integration…