A powerful tool for managing physician performance is the physician performance pyramid that was developed by the late Howard Kirz, MD, at the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. Kirz for many years participated in teaching the “Managing Physician Performance in Organizations” course at the...
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a second round of regulatory waivers and rule changes built to add...Read More »
If organizations merely address legalities in their contracts with physicians and fail to define expectations, they almost guarantee that the...Read More »
As a physician treating COVID-19 patients since the start of the outbreak in the United States, it comes as no surprise that Raúl Zambrano, MS, MD, MRO, FAAFP, FACHE, a contracted the virus from a patient.
Practitioners must be extremely cautious when seeing patients who have potentially contracted COVID-19. Like many other organizations, Oak Street Health in Illinois has developed a specific protocol for the evaluation of such cases.
To boost resources for treating hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, governors across the country have ordered hospitals to...Read More »
As we incorporate social distancing measures into our everyday routines to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), hospitals...Read More »
After pushback from minority communities and people with disabilities, Massachusetts has revised its care-rationing guidelines in the case of a...Read More »
