Cardiologist Barry Uretsky, MD, has been awarded $1.3 million in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed against Sparks Health System, based in Fort Smith, Ark., according to a Republic report.
Integration & Physician Issues
Physicians in private practice are accustomed to having a great deal of independence in their work. This independence comes at a cost, however; they are responsible for running the practice, which may take time away from their time with patients.…
The largest independent physician group in Indianapolis is refusing to sell to a hospital in hopes that accountable care will even the playing field for physician recruitment, according to an Indianapolis Business Journal report. Ben Park, MD, CEO of Indianapolis’…
Primary care physicians and specialists have different reasons for referring patients to certain colleagues, according to a new study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Michael L. Barnett, MD, from Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues investigated…
Although a majority of Massachusetts physicians are familiar with the global payment system, 58 percent are not likely to participate in one, according to a Massachusetts Medical Society survey.
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Practicing physicians are sparse in Washington, D.C., as a new report shows only 2,821 physicians spend more than 20 hours a week seeing patients in the District, according to a Washington Post report. That number is a portion of the…
At the end of August, the Department of Health and Human Services introduced Bundled Payments for Care Improvement, a new program created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Bundled payments reimburse healthcare providers a lump sum on the…
Since hospitals taking a wait-and-see approach to accountable care organizations face the risk of being left behind, PwC has issued a report with four key steps for hospital executives to move out of ACO limbo. According to the report, many…
A recent survey by Aon Hewitt and Polakoff Boland found that 65 percent of employers are very interested, interested or somewhat interested in exploring the use of an accountable care organization model to improve quality and reduce cost of employer-sponsored…
Up to 1,000 private-practice physicians affiliated with Detroit Medical Center have signed affiliation agreements with another physician organization instead of DMC’s own physician-hospital organization, according to a Crain’s Detroit Business report. Accountable Care Physicians said it joined Dearborn, Mich.-based United…