Integration & Physician Issues

Boston-based Steward Health Care has added 20 more physicians to its roster through an affiliation with Manet Community Center in Quincy, Mass., according to a Boston Globe report.

MissionPoint Health Partners, a pilot program of Nashville, Tenn.-based Saint Thomas Health, officially went into effect on Jan. 1 with the participation of more than 1,000 area physicians, according to a system news release.

Healthcare reform is driving efforts to develop integrated delivery models, enhance physician-hospital alignment and collaboration and explore formation of Accountable Care Organizations. As part of this discussion, the concept of "clinical co-management" is often raised. This happens, generally, in one…

Healthcare reform is driving efforts to develop integrated delivery models, enhance physician-hospital alignment and collaboration and explore formation of Accountable Care Organizations. As part of this discussion, the concept of "clinical co-management" is often raised. This happens, generally, in one…

Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center has applied to become a Medicare accountable care organization, according to a hospital news release.

Community Health System's Longview (Texas) Regional Medical Center has announced plans to merge its operations with Diagnostic Clinic of Longview, a multispecialty clinic, according to a CHS news release.

Aetna has launched a patient-centered medical home program for primary care physicians in Connecticut and New Jersey.

Accountable care organizations could make the American health insurance industry unnecessary by 2020, according to New York Times columnist Ezekial Emanuel.

Louisville, Ky.-based Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare has entered into an agreement to acquire Louisville Surgical Associates.

During an affiliation between Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix and Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia, Pa., Vantage Outsourcing helped improve operating efficiencies and control costs, according to a Vantage news release.