Middle Park Medical Center in Kremmling, Colo., part of Kremmling Memorial Hospital District, is finalizing a deal to lease North Park Medical Clinic in Walden, Colo., and purchase the practice for a "nominal fee," according to a Sky-Hi News report.
Integration & Physician Issues
Seventy percent of physicians plan to work longer until retirement due to the economic downturn and depleted personal savings, according to the Jackson & Coker Retirement Survey. Fifty-two percent of physicians have changed their retirement plans since the economic recession,…
Healthcare reform is expected to exacerbate the current primary care physician shortage from 25,000 physicians to 45,000 by 2020, according to a policy analysis from the National Institute for Health Care Reform (pdf). The analysis says the policies in the…
Jim Hinton, president and CEO of Santa Fe, N.M.-based Presbyterian Health Services, said the system expects an “opportunity to get a modest return on investment” through its participation in CMS’ Pioneer Accountable Care Organization program, according to a Washington Post…
Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna and New Brunswick, N.J.-based Partners in Care, an independent physician organization, have launched an accountable care organization in New Jersey. The ACO is focused on roughly 14,000 Cigna beneficiaries. Approximately 360 Partners in Care physicians will serve…
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Physicians’ compensation and competency are two basic factors of hospital employment that have undergone slight changes in the past decade. There are a variety of payment models available for physicians today and the same skill sets that was once defined…
California led the country in physician retention for 2010, as more than 60 percent of medical and osteopathic students ended up practicing in the state after earning their undergraduate medical education there, according to State Physician Workforce Data (pdf). The…
CMS has launched a new demonstration that aims to cut costs while improving at-home healthcare services for up to 10,000 Medicare patients with chronic conditions.
Here are the top five states with the highest and lowest numbers of active physicians as of November, according to the latest data from Kaiser State Health Facts.
Thirty-two healthcare organizations across the country will participate in the new Pioneer Accountable Care Organization program, which is expected to save up to $1.1 billion over five years, according to a news release from the Dept. of Health and Human…