Integration & Physician Issues

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…

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…

Fifty-seven percent of hospital and health system leaders still don’t know how the final rules for Medicare accountable care organizations will affect their organization’s participation in the program, according to a survey from KPMG and Epstein Becker Green. Sixteen percent…

Chester River Health System in Chestertown, Md., and Shore Health System in Easton, Md., have entered into a joint agreement to explore "a regionalized approach" to providing health services to residents of a five-county area, according to a news release.

Detroit-based St. John Providence Health System has partnered with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in a new performance-based reimbursement model for the system’s five hospitals, according to a joint news release. St. John Providence hospitals will commit to mutually-designed…

Sixteen medical groups have expressed interest in leasing space within Northwestern Memorial HealthCare’s new $334 million outpatient tower in Chicago, according to a Crain’s Chicago Business report. The state-of-the-art facility is slated for completion in 2014. While a Northwestern spokesperson…