A recent study performed by the Center for Studying Health System Change examined healthcare delivery in the Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C.-metropolitan area, a market already notable for high rates of physician employment.
Integration & Physician Issues
Middletown, Conn.-based Medical Professional Services, a group of over 400 physicians, plans to join with other physician groups and hospitals to form an accountable care organization, according to a Hartford Courant blog.
Detroit's Wayne State University Physician Group and Rochester, Mich.-based Medical Network One have formed a new contractual arrangement, effective March 1, as a precursor to forming an ACO, according to a news release.
Lee Sacks, MD, CMO at Oak Brook, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care and CEO of Advocate Physician Partners, says data registries — including pharmacy, laboratory, electronic health record and chronic disease registries — are an inexpensive and essential component to success…
PAPP Clinic, a 38-physician multi-specialty group in Newnan, Ga., has signed an exclusive letter of intent to pursue affiliation with Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare as part of the system’s physicians group, according to a Times-Herald report. Piedmont Physicians Group is a…
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In his keynote address at HIMSS11, CMS Administrator Don Berwick, MD, said his office is planning to imminently issue “a notice for proposed rule-making for the accountable care organization rule,” according to a Health Data Management report. Dr. Berwick also…
Kevin Haeberle, a senior vice president at Integrated Healthcare Strategies, makes eight key points on preparing employees for accountable care organizations.
The following article is written by Michael McKevitt, senior vice president, business development, for Regent Surgical Health. Simply stated, neither the priorities of the hospital nor the priorities of the surgeons are necessarily the priorities of a surgery center.…
More than 70 percent of hospital executives said they feel healthcare reform will decrease their private payor rates, according to the National Payor Survey of hospital executives. The survey was implemented by the research firm Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates and…
A RAND report commissioned by the National Quality Forum listed seven types of performance measures essential for payment reforms such as those undertaken by accountable care organizations, according to a release by NQF.