The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is scheduled to vote today on a 10-year alternative to the Medicare's sustainable growth rate for physicians, according to a report by The Hill.
Integration & Physician Issues
Burbank, Calif.-based Providence Health & Services of Southern California has established a joint venture with five medical groups in the Los Angeles area to form Providence Partners for Health, according to a system news release. Physicians will lead and govern…
Cincinnati-based TriHealth has acquired Cardiology Associates of Cincinnati as part of its efforts to integrate cardiology care through the creation of the TriHealth Heart Institute, according to a TriHealth news release.
A recent survey shows 82 percent of hospitalists who work as locum tenens are also full-time, salaried employees, according to the 2011 Hospitalist Locum Tenens Survey.
A $42 million donation by a Chicago couple to develop an institute dedicated to improving physicians' bedside manner has sparked a debate within the medical community about whether bedside manner can be taught or if it is an innate quality.
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Fargo, N.D. and Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and Broadway Medical Center in Alexandria, Minn., have signed a non-binding letter of intent to explore a merger, according to a Sanford news release.
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.
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…