San Ramon, Calif.-based Hill Physicians Medical Group, which represents around 3,000 physicians in Northern California, reported nearly $4.7 million in net income for 2009 on $419 million in revenue, according to a report in the Sacramento Business Journal.
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Here are the median daily on-call compensation rates for independent and hospital-employed physicians by specialty, according to the MGMA's Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey 2010 Report, Based on 2009 Data.
Chicago Public Schools will open the city's first high school focused on educating students for future careers in healthcare, according to a report by Crain's Chicago Business.
Orthopedic surgeon William R. Martin III, MD, has been named the new medical director of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, effective June 1, according to an AAOS news release.
1. Orthopedics. Rising ASC reimbursement for orthopedic surgery is transforming a sometimes break-even field into a money-making one, says William G. Southwick, president and CEO of HealthMark Partners in Nashville. For example, shoulder surgery used to be so underfunded it…
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Andrew VanZee has been appointed as Indiana's first coordinator for overseeing statewide efforts to convert state hospital and clinics from paper medical records to electronic ones, according to an Associated Press report in the Indianapolis Star.
Bill Horne, CEO of Laser Spine Institute, discusses how a 2004 surgery prompted him, along with his physician, James St. Louis, DO, to launch Laser Spine Institute. LSI marked its fifth anniversary in March and has grown dramatically since the…
Florence, S.C.-based Paincare Associates, whose model is now being used at five pain clinic locations, recently advertised its franchise opportunities in the Wall Street Journal.
About 100 to 200 Texas physicians each year are ending all involvement with Medicare, up from "less than a handful" per year in 2007, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle.
Democrats in Congress are losing interest in several healthcare bills meant to follow up on the reform law, as members of both chambers face challenging fall election campaigns, according to a report by the Hill.