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.
Integration & Physician Issues
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.
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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…
Co-management arrangements are relatively new pay-for-performance programs whereby hospitals engage physicians to manage and improve entire hospital service lines (e.g., cardiovascular, orthopedics, etc.). These arrangements place emphasis on achievement of pre-established quality and performance metrics and can offer significant improvements…
Here are 12 statistics about medical directors from Integrated Health Strategies' 2009 Medical Director Survey. The survey collected data from 160 organizations, 2,600 individual medical directors and 66 different medical director positions.
Summa Health Systems and Crystal Clinic, both based in Akron, Ohio, have merged orthopedic programs, according to a report in Crain's Cleveland Business.
Note: The following article was first published in The Camden Quarterly, volume XIII, number 2 by The Camden Group, one of the nation's leading healthcare advisory firms. Historically, buying physician practices has not resulted in successful outcomes. Hospital inexperience in…