Practice Management

Hospitals can charge patients facility fees of more than $1,000 if they see physicians who work in an office that is owned by the hospital, according to a report by The Boston Globe.

Salaries and compensation packages of hospital-employed physicians have become a burning topic in recent years, mostly due to the upsurge in hospitals acquiring physician practices and subsequent employment of physicians.

Rockford (Ill.) Orthopedic Associates and Crystal Lake Orthopedics have announced their intention to merge.

Readmissions are a significant concern for hospitals, as they will receive cuts to their Medicare payments for higher-than-expected readmission rates for certain diagnoses.

Here are eight ways orthopedic practices can improve their bottom line.

The surgeons of 3B Orthopaedics have become employees of Aria Health, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer report.

Healthcare was front and center in the "fiscal cliff" debates to end 2012 and will continue to play a large role in the "debt ceiling" debates in 2013. Over the next several years, many new initiatives will take place to…

While only 6 percent of patients in the United States are worried about financial relationships between surgeons and device industry representatives, most patients feel surgeons should not receive gifts from industry members, according to a new study published in the…

Northland Orthopedic Associates in Rhinelander, Wis., has become a part of Ministry Medical Group.

A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that specific consequences for physician violations of online professionalism have not been outlined, but there is general consensus on a few events that should "never" happen.