Mount Sinai Health Partners, a clinically integrated network including providers and Mount Sinai Health System, partnered with health insurer Aetna to form an accountable care organization.
Practice Management
Physicians may want to consider protecting their practice website from unapparent dangers, according to Medscape.
Although some payers have exited the marketplace due to heavy financial losses, the Department of Health and Human Services reported the average number of payers per state have slightly increased in 2016, according to Kaiser Family Foundation.
The South has high rates of chronic disease and poor health outcomes, and the majority of states still have not adopted the Medicaid expansion to adults, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
In an increasingly digitized world, ensuring cybersecurity is a must, especially for healthcare organizations that handle personally identifiable information and protected health information.
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Here are 13 statistics on orthopedic surgeon salary, based on payscale.com data.
Registered nurses earn the highest salaries in the western region of the country, according to the Medscape Nurse Salary Report 2015.
More employers are offering health living/incentive programs, according to Employee Benefit News.
Peter Grinspoon, MD, wrote a memoir detailing his journey from opioid addiction to recovery, according to The Boston Globe.
Of the pool of physicians sued, here are the percentages who were sued while working in seven specific practice settings, according to Medscape Malpractice Report 2015: Why Most Doctors Get Sued.