North Carolina hospitals are competing over physician practices, driven by the recession, looming healthcare reform changes and reimbursement cuts, according to a News Observer report.

Here are 9 statistics on average compensation of non-profit hospital top management officials, according to the Internal Revenue Service's Exempt Organizations Hospital Compliance Project Final Report. Persons listed as "CEO" or "chief executive officer" were treated as top management officials…

One of the prominent aspects of the recent healthcare reform discussion is the effort to change the reimbursement methodology for both hospitals and physicians. A number of models, including the patient centered medical home, partial or full capitation or bundled…

Accountable care organizations are the government-prescribed remedy for overhauling healthcare. Aimed at maintaining or improving the quality of care while reducing overall health care costs, organizations that can effectively demonstrate they meet quality thresholds (e.g., clinical processes and outcomes, patients’…

Innovation around healthcare payment is in the air these days, especially in California, where hospitals have been a wellspring of new payment approaches for the past three decades, says Anne McLeod, senior vice president for health policy at California Hospital…

Cape Cod Healthcare in Haynnis, Mass., has partnered with the local physician community to create two new organizations with hopes of them evolving into ACOs, according to a CCHC news release.

Advocate Health Care (Oak Brook, Ill.) — 13 hospitals. The largest healthcare provider in Illinois, Advocate Health Care was named one of the top 10 U.S. health systems in quality and efficiency by Thomson Reuters in both 2009 and 2010…

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has received $3.84 million in federal grants to support the creation of a new branch of its urban health program, according to a Johns Hopkins news release.

Olympia, Wash.-based Cardiology Associates will join Providence Physicians Network, the physician group associated with Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services, by the end of the year, according to a Puget Sound Business Journal report.

Linde Finsrud Wilson, COO of Aria Health, a three-hospital system in the Philadelphia area, provides 10 key concepts about Aria's plans to build an accountable care organization.