Accountable care organizations could help physicians and researchers connect the dots when it comes to studying diseases and other public health concerns, writes David Bodycombe, PhD, an assistant scientist in the Health Services Research and Development Center at Johns Hopkins…
Integration & Physician Issues
As healthcare moves into the next decade, new payment models like bundled and episodic payments, risk-sharing agreements, value-based payments and accountable care organizations are picking up momentum and changing the way reimbursement functions in the healthcare market. These new models…
Physicians signing contracts with hospitals should be careful not to fall into two "traps," according to healthcare attorney Steven Harris in a report in the American Medical Association's American Medical News.
Ashland (Kan.) Hospital Center decided to tackle the shortage of rural physicians in a creative way: It offers physicians eight weeks of paid time off to provide mission and humanitarian medical services to those in need, according to a report…
As healthcare insurers diversify and buy traditional business adversaries such as hospital consultants and physicians groups, serious independence and patient confidentiality concerns arise, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
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Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango, Colo., will acquire medical oncology practice Southwest Oncology and radiation oncology practice Durango Cancer Center, according to a report in The Daily Times.
Given the recent announcement of the first 27 CMS Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organizations, and with health insurance giants such as Cigna, United and Blue Cross Blue Shield touting accountable care models, it's safe to say the phenomenon…
The University of Massachusetts Medical School has been awarded a contract to support a patient-centered medical home known as the Rhode Island Chronic Care Sustainability Project.
Professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School and author of several healthcare books, Regina E. Herzlinger, has gone on the record in an article for Managed Care saying that accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes are destined…
United Hospital Center in Bridgeport, W.Va., will partner with West Virginia University Healthcare to open a new neurosurgery, spine and pain center, according to a WBOY report.