Evaluating the Medicare demonstration programs The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health reform legislation created several new types of provider arrangements that many hospitals and physician groups are evaluating. These organizational structures are intended to enhance the ability of…
Integration & Physician Issues
A federal appeals court has found Citizens Medical Center in Victoria, Texas, has a rational basis for enacting a resolution that excludes non-contracted cardiologists from exercising clinical privileges at the hospital, according to an American Medical News report. Three cardiologists…
Indianapolis-based St. Francis Medical Group has acquired Indy Southside Surgical, effective March 1, according to a news release.
Blue Shield of California is teaming with five healthcare providers to form two accountable care organizations, according to a news release.
An essential component of the development of accountable care organizations is physician integration: the alignment of physicians with hospital goals and standards. Before hospitals can successfully partner with physicians, however, physicians need to integrate with themselves, says Michael G. Cassatly,…
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New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, N.C., has announced two local cardiology groups have joined its NHRMC Physician Group, according to a news release by the health system.
The success of physician integration may be the "tipping point" for the development of an accountable care organization, says Michael McKenna, MD, VP of Medical Management at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill.
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.
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.