Hospital/physician relations

He debuted at number 67 overall, fourth among healthcare executives nationally, and was deemed the top Long Island business leader.

Fee-for-service compensation arrangements, they propose, create incentives for physicians to order more services than are best for patients.

Some physicians are concerned moving the surgeries out of hospitals will land vulnerable patients in the emergency room with pain, complications.

In the past 20 years, the rate of hospitalization among seniors that is related to opioid overuse has quintupled.

Overdoses kill 90 people in the United States each day; opioid poisonings cost more than $20 billion in emergency departments, hospital care.

Every older adult admitted to a hospital as an inpatient has the right to challenge a discharge if he or she feels unprepared to leave.

Other workforce issues, drug shortages and price hikes are also top of mind, Premier's Fall 2016 Economic Outlook shows.

49 percent say they "often or always" experience feelings of burnout, would not recommend a career in medicine to their children.

Physicians should be models of leadership, articulate individual responsibilities, encourage insights from other team members, AMA says.

The highest-paid physician executives on average earned $499,000, and served in emerging roles that include physician in chief, chief strategy officer, chief transformational officer, chief innovation officer and chief integration officer.