Worsening physician shortages in central New York State are forcing hospitals to cut services and send patients elsewhere, according to a Post-Standard report.
Integration & Physician Issues
Montefiore Medical Center in New York City has expanded its contract with insurer EmblemHealth to explore an accountable care arrangement, according to a Crain’s New York Business report. Both parties renewed their agreement for an additional three-year term, effective Jan.…
The second week of January is when most people begin to stray from — or completely abandon — New Year’s resolutions. Hospitals are no different. Rather than slip into old habits, here are five pieces of advice for hospitals to…
Augusto Alinea, MD, medical director of the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Stevens Point, discusses three common physician complaints and how to approach them.
CGH Medical Center in Sterling, Ill., has finalized its merger with Sterling Rock Falls Clinic, according to a news release by the hospital.
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The University of Florida in Gainesville has launched an executive education program for hospital, physician practice and physician leaders on physician practice management and organizational integration.
We saw a great deal of physician hospital integration activity during 2010. The integration activity centered around practice acquisition and employment, service line management, co-management and transactions involving surgery centers and other physician-owned facilities and a number of other physician…
Banner Health, the parent company of 13 Arizona hospitals, is “engaged in serious discussions with private insurers” about the implementation of an accountable care organization, according to an op-ed written by Peter S. Fine, Banner’s president and CEO, in The…
Insurers and healthcare providers are currently at odds over how accountable care organizations should be regulated, according to a report in the Washington Post.
Wyoming Medical Center in Casper is discussing further need to develop a statewide accountable care organization as hospitals in Colorado, Utah, South Dakota and Montana compete for the 207-bed hospital’s market, according to a Billings Gazette report. As out-of-state hospitals…