Chris Rivard, health care services chair at Moss Adams, an accounting firm headquartered in Seattle, has a front-row seat to a practice-acquisition war heating up among hospitals in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. At least six practices in…
Integration & Physician Issues
Medical practice managers struggle with the day-to-day challenges of rising operating costs, uncertainty about Medicare reimbursement rates and selecting and implementing an EHR, according to the third annual MGMA report "Medical Practice Today: What Members Have to Say."
Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon, Wash., acquired the Skagit Valley Medical Center, an 81-physician medical group, also in Mount Vernon, this week in a $17.4 million deal, according to a report by the Puget Sound Business Journal.
Physician-owned enterprises — such as ASCs, imaging centers and practices — are now losing ground to hospitals due to the financial crisis of the past two to three years, according to James Unland, president of the Chicago-based Health Capital Group…
Augusta Health, a 225-bed hospital in Fishersville, Virginia, will revoke the privileges of three University of Virginia cardiologists next week following the hospital's employment of cardiologists and plans for a $42 million cardiac and vascular facility, according to a report…
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Employed physicians at New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.'s Coney Island Hospital voted to join Doctors Council SEIU, part of the Service Employees International Union, according to a SEIU news release.
Physician Hospitals of America, joined by Texas Spine & Joint Hospital (TSJH) in Tyler, filed a lawsuit in early June challenging the health reform law's ban on new physician-owned hospitals. Accompanying that lawsuit is a motion for a preliminary injunction…
A new set of proposed accreditation standards would further limit duty hours of residents working in teaching hospitals, according to a release by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
A committee panel from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released an opinion in a recent issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology supporting the continued development of obstetric-gynecologic hospitalists.
Practice management companies are increasingly acquiring independent physician groups, especially practices that specialize in inpatient specialties, such as maternal and fetal medicine and emergency medicine, according to a report by American Medical News.