Integration & Physician Issues

Like many of hospitals around the country, our non-profit, community hospital has watched intently as ASCs have proliferated. We have noted the increasing interest of surgeons in owning these facilities, and the high rates of patient satisfaction they deliver. Not…

The Medical Group Management Association's Medical Directorship/On Call Compensation Survey: 2009 Report Based on 2008 Data found that hospital compensation provided to independent physicians serving as hospital medical directors was substantially more than when hospitals pay an employed physician for…

The employment of physicians by a hospital or health system is a strategic initiative that needs board and senior leadership approval. The strategic intentions may be correct but the implementation of the plan is guaranteed torturous. If employment of physicians…

Here are seven ways hospital executives can improve relationships with their medical staffs from Susan Reynolds, MD, PhD, president and CEO of the Los Angeles-based Institute for Medical Leadership.

Through market observation it can be seen that there is a strong reemergence of physician employment by hospitals and health systems. The strategic logic for this reemergence is similar to the past — i.e. gain market share through primary care…

Dick Hanley, president and CEO of Broomfield, Colo.-based Health Inventures, which specializes in developing and managing ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) and imaging centers, often brokering partnerships between hospitals and physicians, offers the following six predictions and assessments relating to physician/hospital…

Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital has opened a $10.3 million surgery center, according to the Greenwich Time.

Henderson (Texas) Memorial Hospital and the East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System (ETMC) have signed a letter of intent stating Henderson Memorial will affiliate with ETMC according to a press release from ETMC.

Facing a lack of capital and major cuts to their funding sources, almost every healthcare facility in the North Bay region of California will break ground and take on major construction this year, according to the North Bay Business Journal.

Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, N.M., is set to begin several new expansion projects that will cost more than $20 million, according to Las Cruces Sun-News.