Physician Employment
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation posted a series of papers explaining the financial methodology for the Direct Contracting Model’s global and professional options, set to begin next April.
A new AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Insights Report “Evolving Physician-Practice Ownership Models” explores the role of physicians at the center of the health care value equation, analyzes emerging investor types, strategic implications for hospitals and health systems and organizational…
We profile four major new investor types: private equity, venture capital, health plans and large employers along with a representative sample of recent investments and partnerships. Several of the deals by private-equity firms and health plans are billion-dollar acquisitions. Expect further…
As health system leaders look at the physician-practice merger and acquisition activity in their local markets and reassess their own physician alignment strategies, they need to answer questions about their strategic physician partnership needs, local market dynamics, their organization’s value…
This report provides an overview of current trends in physician–practice ownership models and their driving forces, lessons from nontraditional physician-practice arrangements, and implications for hospitals’/health systems’ organizational strategies, physician relationship strategy and provision…
Physician-practice acquisitions and/or equity investment by such nontraditional players as health plans, private-equity investors, venture capitalists and large employers is an increasing trend. These new entrants give physicians new options for where and how to work. In the shift to value-based…
Employment at the nation's hospitals increased by 0.17% in August to a seasonally adjusted 5,253,200 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 imposed caps on the number of residents for which each teaching hospital is eligible to receive Medicare direct graduate medical education (DGME) and indirect medical education (IME) payments. These caps have remained in place and have generally only been adjusted as…