Foreign national physicians and international medical graduates who are pursuing employment or seeking to become clinically active in the United States most often apply for an H-1B visa, which allows a foreign national to enter the U.S. for professional-level employment for up to six years. This...
Fundamentally, there should be no difference between how employed practitioners and independent practitioners are credentialed. Verifying the information and evaluating current clinical competence should be the same regardless of whether the applicant internist is an employed hospitalist or an...
Contractual and employment relationships only make sense if the strategic goals of the physician and his or her organization are aligned using appropriate compensation incentives for productivity, quality, safety, and service. Such legal documents must be crafted carefully to avoid Stark self-...
Nearly 37,000 future physician residents found their training homes for the next several years. The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) conducted its annual...
Hospitals and corporate entities acquired 20,900 U.S. physician practices over a two-year period beginning January 1, 2019, according to a study released by the Physicians Advocacy Institute. With those acquisitions, hospitals and corporate entities own 48.4% of physician practices.
Minnesota is the place for physicians to practice, according to Medscape's recent ranking of states. The ranking is based on several factors: physician burnout rates, levels of happiness in and out of work, compensation, malpractice payouts per capita, number of adverse actions against...