Integration & Physician Issues

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American Physician Partners, a medical staffing company based in Brentwood, Tenn., is closing and planning to transition its hospital contracts, according to Bloomberg. 

The number of physician leaders within an organization has expanded alongside healthcare's growing footprint and rising complexity, resulting in a vast patchwork of leaders with different job descriptions, expectations and standards. In the face of all this complexity emerges a…

Cedars-Sinai's organ transplant program had its busiest year on record with 616 successful transplants for better patient outcomes, according to a July 17 news release shared with Becker's.

Physician burnout will continue to be "a serious threat to patient care" until the nation moves from a volume-based system to a value-based system, Ben Kornitzer, MD, chief medical officer at Austin, Texas-based Agilon Health, wrote in an opinion piece…

Twenty-four physicians from Atlanta-based Georgia Urology have been recognized as some of the state's top, practicing physicians — accounting for nearly 40 percent of the entire 'best of' list, according to a July 11 news release.

Starting July 24, hospitals in Washington state will be required to report to the state's board of nursing hiring a nurse with a multistate license within 30 days of their hiring date as part of the Nurse Licensure Compact, which…

The top tax breaks physicians use are charity contributions (70 percent), contributing to pre-paid 401(k) plans (60 percent) and interest on mortgage loans (52 percent), according to a recent Medscape survey.

The American Hospital Association is asking Congress to consider doubling the $385 million in five-year funding it has proposed for the Hospital Preparedness Program.

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