Independent physician practices are rapidly disappearing as hospitals, insurers, corporate entities and private equity firms expand their reach. However, new models of practice ownership and physician leadership are helping independent physicians adapt to healthcare’s challenges. Read the full article at Becker’s Physician Leadership
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The landscape of health care is changing rapidly, driven by policy decisions, market consolidation and shifting expectations for physicians. Independent practices are increasingly caught in the middle. Payment pressure is tightening, administrative demands are accelerating and the competitive landscape is shifting as health systems, private equity and new care models all re-position. Yet, across the
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Two of America’s largest health insurers are trying their hand at a different profession — the practice of medicine. Aetna and Cigna have announced that they may unilaterally “downcode” some types of care — and pay physicians less than what patients’ conditions would ordinarily warrant.
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Rebekah Bernard, M.D., and David Eagle, M.D., unpack how ownership and leadership shape outcomes in Medical Economics’ Nov. 18 expert panel. View the article at Medical Economics
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Independent medical practices remain the backbone of patient access and continuity in communities nationwide, but the business model is under strain. Medical Economics and Physicians Practice will publish a new expert panel discussion that tackles the question head-on: Can independent practices still succeed? And if so, how? View the article at Medical Economics
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Pharmaceutical wholesalers are poised to grow their physician management businesses as private equity investment slows. Backing from companies like McKesson, Cencora and Cardinal Health can help physician groups weather drug shortages and inflation, among other clinical and financial hurdles, some doctors said. Wholesalers are filling a void left by private equity firms that have retreated
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I applaud your recent series exploring the wide variation in the cost of procedures like colonoscopies across hospitals (“A colonoscopy costs nearly eight times more at one RI hospital than another. Why?” News, Oct. 20). The costs highlighted are quite substantial. Unfortunately, your article fails to address a major opportunity – that patients can realize
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Oncologists are getting hit with yet another one-two payment punch under a new national downcoding policy from Cigna that took effect Oct. 1. Read the full article at Oncology News Central
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