Integration & Physician Issues

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…

Approximately 670 physicians have joined the new Providence Partners for Health, aimed at improving quality and controlling healthcare costs.

The following transactions or developments between hospitals and physician groups took place within the past month, beginning with the most recent. 1. St. Joseph Hospital in Phoenix Strikes Co-Management Agreement for NeurologySt. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix created…

Employees at patient-centered medical homes are more likely to have higher morale but higher risk of burnout, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The finding is based on survey responses from 603 providers and clinical…

Six providers are the first to seek accreditation as accountable care organizations from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Those six organizations are: Billings (Mont.) ClinicChildren’s Hospital of PhiladelphiaCrystal Run Healthcare (Middletown, N.Y.)Essentia Health (Duluth, Minn.)HealthPartners (Minneapolis)Kelsey-Seybold Clinic (Houston) Designation…