Hospital/physician relations

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.

Ambulatory healthcare businesses, which include outposts like doctors offices, dentists offices, outpatient centers and clinics among others, added 18,500 jobs in the month.

Clinicians will also be able to bill, and be paid, more appropriately when they spend more time with their patients.

The announcement comes on the heels of a failed merger bid between Southcoast and Care New England, which would have created the third largest health system in Massachusetts.