Banner Thunderbird Medical Center in Glendale, Ariz., has decided not to renew contracts with two physician hospitalist groups for emergency department coverage and has instead opted to directly employ physicians for these services, according to a report by the Arizona…

The American Board of Internal Medicine has sanctioned 139 physicians and initiated legal action against five more for soliciting or sharing examination questions, according to a release from ABIM.

Methodist Healthcare System of San Antonio may soon acquire Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio, a 23-physician cardiology group, according to a report by the San Antonio Express-News.

Hospitals are increasingly transferring patients to long term-care facilities after a critical illness, but there is little data to guide such decisions or to verify whether these facilities are effective, according to a study in the Journal of the American…

The Department of Health & Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched a free software application intended to help states, hospitals and other organizations more efficiently compile, analyze and post data on quality of hospital care, its…

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, which serves some 3.2 million people in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia, plans to launch a program Jan. 1, 2011, that would reward physicians with bonuses for decreasing patients' healthcare expenses and improving quality, according to…

A Michigan program to reduce hospital-associated infections is catching on nationwide as the Obama administration offers $50 million to states to promote quality initiatives and will begin penalizing hospitals with high infection rates beginning in 2015, according to a report…

Maryland health officials, investigating allegations that a cardiologist in Towson, Md., performed medically unnecessary cardiac stent procedures, have identified several other cardiologists in the state who may have also over-performed these procedures, according to a report by the Baltimore Sun.

In addition to a shortage of primary care physicians overall, the nation is facing a shortage of a subgroup within primary care — physicians with special training in the care of older people. This scarcity comes at a time when…

An investigation into thousands of unread echocardiograms discovered at New York's Harlem Hospital Center has uncovered a problem that dates back farther and includes many more records than initially thought, according to a report in The New York Times.