A small but growing number of physicians are dropping their insurance-based practices in favor of so-called concierge models in which patients pay an up-front annual fee and premium rates in return for deluxe services, according to a report in The…
Integration & Physician Issues
The cost profiles insurance companies create for physicians based on their cost of care can vary widely, raising questions about the accuracy of the profiles, according to a new study by the RAND Corp. Insurance companies use these profiles to…
As hospitals look for strategies to improve physician engagement and physicians look for efficient care environments, both groups are increasingly drawn to clinical co-management agreements in which hospitals run an ASC as a hospital outpatient department. David Thoene, founder and…
As hospitals buy up practices and get back into the physician practice management business, they need to be aware that practices are fundamentally different from hospitals, according to Marc Halley, president and CEO of Halley Consulting Group in Westerville, Ohio.
Christian G. Zimmerman, MD, FACS, MBA, is chairman, medical director of Idaho Neurological Institute, and co-chairman, Spinal Medicine Institute, at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, ID.
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Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Ill., and Affinity Healthcare, a multi-specialty physician practice in Riverwoods, Ill., have signed a letter of intent to merge, according to a report by the Daily Herald.
Many hospitals are looking to buy up ASCs from physician-owners and convert them into hospital outpatient departments that command higher reimbursements than ASCs. Other hospitals are seeking to have HOPDs operate like ASCs. While physicians cannot directly own HOPDs, they…
On Feb. 11, David Thoene, managing member of Medical Surgical Partners, presented a Webinar titled "Hospital-Doctor Joint Ventures: A Highly Efficient Physician-Engagement Tool" that highlighted reasons for and benefits of creating hospital-physician ASC joint ventures. Here he addresses two questions…
Ohio State University's private physician practice, OSU Physicians, will join OSU Medical Center, according to a report by the Columbus Dispatch.
Marc Halley, CEO of Halley Consulting Group in Westerville, Ohio, has worked for many years with hospital-owned medical practice networks across the country, facilitating financial turnarounds, organizing effective governance between employed physicians and hospital executives and developing methods to improve…