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…
Integration & Physician Issues
Bucks County (Pa.) Specialty Hospital has beaten the health reform law's Dec. 31 deadline for opening new physician-owned hospitals because its owners bought and rebuilt a women's hospital that had closed, according to a report by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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…
In a sign of accelerating efforts by hospitals to align themselves with physicians, a California hospital association is floating the idea of forming a joint foundation to supply its hospital members with physicians, according to a report by the Wall…
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.
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Saint Joseph's Health System and Piedmont Healthcare, both based in Atlanta, have signed a letter of intent to enter exclusive negotiations to create a joint operating company that combine certain assets of both SJHS and PHC, including Saint Joseph’s Hospital…
Orange Park (Fla.) Medical Center, a 252-bed hospital in Clay County, recently applied to the state to become a Level II trauma center, according to a report in the Jacksonville Business Journal.
Atlanta's one-hospital Saint Joseph's Health System and three-hospital Piedmont Healthcare are discussing formation of a joint operating company sharing physician networks, hospitals and research facilities, according to a report by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
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.
In a proposed strategic alliance, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix plans to shift many of its pediatric cases to Phoenix Children's Hospital so that St. Joseph's can focus on a few adult services, according to a report…