The trend in recent years has seen hospitals and healthcare systems acquiring practices and employing more physicians. According to a 2014 survey conducted by healthcare staffing company Jackson Healthcare, 20% of primary care physicians were employed by a hospital. This percentage was twice as...
More than 680 of your colleagues have added their answers to our questions about salary, compensation, workload, and staffing. The survey will be open until April 26, but don’t procrastinate! Click here or enter this URL into the...
The Arkansas House of Representatives last week rejected a bill that would allow telemedicine companies to provide telemedicine services in the state using physicians licensed and living in Arkansas. The bill would allow patients to be treated by a physician through various forms of video using...
NCQA is accepting public comments through April 8 on proposed changes to its Health Plan Accreditation (HPA) program with the aim of encouraging plans to focus more on value-based strategies. Insurers, consumers, employers, and other stakeholders are welcome to advise NCQA on the primary way it...
Physicians and hospitals are being evaluated on myriad quality metrics, with results increasingly tied to financial penalties or bonuses. But payers, providers, and patients don’t always agree on what “quality” means, and there is no official set of standards. In a recent Wall Street...
