Integration & Physician Issues

Today is the deadline for hospitals to submit accountable care organization applications to CMS for the April 1 start date. The acceptance period began Dec. 1. This round of applications will be either approved or denied no later than March…

Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network has acquired Lehigh Valley Cardiology Associates, the second cardiology group acquired by the system, according to a Morning Call report.

Ohio is investing $1 million to help train the providers of 50 physician practices on the patient-centered medical home model, according to a Columbus Dispatch report. Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s administration is funding the effort with money the state received…

Rajiv Chopra is principal and CFO for The C/N Group.   Q: What are you seeing as the current trend in hospital acquisitions when it comes to physician practices and ambulatory surgery centers?   Rajiv Chopra: For many institutions, there's…

After reviewing the outcomes of 10 major Medicare demonstrations, the Congressional Budget Office has found most produced little or no savings to the federal health insurance program. The CBO reviewed six disease management and care coordination demos, and four-value based…

The following physician-hospital data is from the 2012 edition of AHA Hospital Statistics. The top four models are reflected for each group of hospitals, organized by bed size. Other models included in the AHA report, but not reflected here, are:…

One of the significant trends in healthcare over the past several years has been the steady increase in health system employment of physicians. In fact, for the first time more physician practices in the U.S. are hospital-owned than physician-owned.[1] As…

Women now comprise 31 percent of the physician workforce — an increase of 400 percent since 1981, according to an analysis of the American Medical Association’s physician database. Only 12 percent of physicians were women in 1981. Since that time,…

CMS has published its proposed rule for the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, under which payments made by pharmaceutical, medical device or other supply manufacturers to physicians and teaching hospitals must be reported. The proposed rule would also require the reporting…

Emergency physicians are urging Florida Gov. Rick Scott to support a bill that would provide sovereign immunity for physicians when they treat patients in hospital emergency departments, according to a Naples Daily News report. The Florida College of Emergency Physicians…