A recent survey by cardiology service and information provider MedAxiom found that cardiologists are increasingly choosing to integrate with hospitals in response to fee cuts and tighter regulations for private practices. Five months ago, 15 percent of cardiologists surveyed had…
Integration & Physician Issues
Vanguard Health Systems has completed its $6.1 million acquisition of bankrupt Phoenix-based Arizona Heart Institute, according to an Arizona Republic report.
New Hampshire Governor John Lynch has announced a pilot program that will compensate healthcare providers in the state who are part of accountable care organizations for their quality of care versus the typical fee-for-service model, according to a report by…
Two Sugar Land, Texas-area neurologists, Jeffrey A. Jackson, MD, and M. Faisal Khan, MD, have joined the Methodist Sugar Land Hospital's physician organization as Methodist Sugar Land Neurology Associates, according to a Fort Bend Now report.
Physicians have the advantage in today's job market because of the nationwide physician shortage, says Dawn Golden, a physician recruiter who has worked for Catalina Medical Recruiters in Phoenix the past 8 ½ years, conducting both permanent placement and locum…
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Connie Curran, RN, is the CEO of Best on Board, a company that provides governance education, testing and certification for hospital and health system board members. Here she discusses current changes in physician recruitment and the traits hospitals should prioritize…
The American Medical Group Association, representing large group practices, played a central role in shaping accountable care organizations and sees group practices, and not hospitals, as the mainstay of ACOs, according to Chet Speed, vice president of public policy for…
Hospital employment of physicians has become increasingly popular in recent years and is only expected to continue. Most industry leaders predict that reimbursement will increasingly favor quality over quantity, and organizations most poised to profit under this type of system…
A recent survey by SK&A, a provider of healthcare information solutions, has found that 90 percent of physicians are affiliated with at least one hospital, and the average physician is affiliated with 1.7 hospitals, according to a SK&A news release.
Oakwood Healthcare, a four-hospital system in Dearborn, Mich., announced in June it was starting an accountable care organization. Here, Bill Isenstein, senior vice president for managed care at Oakwood, explains its plans for an ACO.