WESTMED Medical Group, a 260-physician group practice, launched an accountable care organization (ACO) with Unitedhealth and its Optum medical services platform, and more than 13,000 individuals in March 2012. Since then, the physician-led ACO has earned nearly $1 million in performance bonuses...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 45
Physicians blame declining reimbursements and administrative hassles as major factors in their stagnant compensation, according to a recent survey by The Medicus Firm, a physician recruitment firm. The annual 2013 Physician Practice Preference and Relocation Survey of more than 2,500 physicians...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 44
The old adage that grades aren’t everything appears to be true for hospitals as well as schools. Five of the 10 hospital “report cards” evaluated were given low marks in “HANYS’ Report On Report Cards,” published earlier this week by the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) for use...
Innovation is a favorite buzzword in healthcare. There are any number of vendors and consultants lining up to sell you a toolkit, seminar, or some other widget to make your organization more “innovative.”
The Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District, in an unpublished opinion, affirmed a trial court's dismissal of a lawsuit brought by an orthopedic surgeon claiming that a private hospital violated its bylaws and that its proceedings were fundamentally unfair in deciding to restrict the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 43
A record number of students applied to and enrolled in the nation’s medical schools in 2013, according to data released today by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The total number of applicants to medical school grew by 6.1%, to 48,014, surpassing the previous record set in...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 40
Hancock County (Iowa) Health System is offering $10,000 to anyone who refers a qualified physician who is then hired to practice for the organization. The referral program was created because of a physician shortage in Iowa. Across the nation, high demand for primary or preventative care...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 39
Canada had a record 75,142 physicians last year and they earned $328,000 gross (CDN) on average, according to two new reports. The annual reports on physician supply and payments for both general practitioners and specialists were released last week by the Canadian Institute for Health...
The Supreme Court of California reversed and remanded an appellate court's ruling that a hospital medical executive committee's (MEC) delegation of its authority to select the participants in a fair hearing to the hospital's governing body actually denied a physician a fair...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 10
The landscape of the healthcare environment is constantly changing, now more rapidly and with greater impact than ever before. One change that has invoked more debate than others has been the increase in employed physicians-that is, physicians working directly for a hospital...
