Integration & Physician Issues

In a session at the Becker’s Hospital Review annual meeting in Chicago on May 17, two consultants with The Camden Group, Senior Vice President Teresa Koenig, MD, and Vice President Eric T. Nielsen, MD,  discussed critical parts of clinical integration…

In a session at the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting on May 17 in Chicago, Scott Safriet of HealthCare Appraisers and Amber McGraw Walsh, partner with McGuireWoods, discussed legal and valuation issues affecting co-management agreements.Mr. Safriet said service line co-management…

At the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 17, Ronald Vance, managing director of Navigant, and Michele M. Molden, executive vice president and chief transformation officer of Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare, discussed the implications of hospital-physician alignment for…

At the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 17, Peggy Naas, MD, MBA, vice president of physician strategies at VHA, and Lani Berman, MBA, vice president of performance services at VHA, presented "Exploring the Facts and Fantasies…

In a session at the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 17, Chuck Peck, MD, CEO of Health Inventures, discussed keys to successful implementation of physician alignment initiatives.

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…

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…