Integration & Physician Issues

Hospital leaders are looking to physicians to help anchor their organizations under healthcare reform. Here are 10 statistics from Merritt Hawkins' 2011 Survey of Final Year Residents, which indicate where medical residents are hoping to practice in the next few…

Boston Medical Center has joined Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' Alternative Quality Contract, a global payment model that ties incentive payments to quality, health outcomes and patient experiences.

In a policy brief on safety net accountable care organizations in California, UC Berkeley experts recommended nine state policy changes to help ACO development, including the reconsideration of California's corporate practice of medicine doctrine.

Commercial accountable care organizations are continually popping up across the country, and Medicare ACOs are not far behind. At the time of this article's publication, CMS had yet to announce its first group of ACOs under the Medicare Shared Savings…

ProMed Alliance, a subsidiary of Peer Review Mediation & Arbitration, a medical services business development company, has announced it has formed an accountable care organization in Dade County, Fla..

The Healthcare Association of New York State announced it will offer assistance to member hospital-based clinics and primary care sites interested in achieving recognition as a patient-centered medical home.

The CMS Innovation Center has pushed back the announcement of the Health Care Innovation Challenge award recipients for an indeterminate amount of time, extending back the original date of March 30 by "several weeks."

Only a few years ago, a hospital's physician-integration strategy was seen as the major determinant of a hospital's referrals and patient volume. Hospitals acquired physician practices like hungry hippos — quickly and aggressively — looking to boost patient volumes and…

Recruiting a new physician to a surgery center can be a stressful process, as networking can take time away from an administrator's other duties and there may be other facilities competing for the same providers. Here Joan Shearer, administrator of…

A Mississippi bill passed in the state House on Monday would exempt physicians from state income tax on any annual pay over $100,000 if they practice in a critical shortage area, according to a Sun Herald report.