Hospital/physician relations
Daneff joins Terre Haute Regional Hospital from Oro Valley Hospital and Northwest Medical Center in Tuscon.
Doctors argue in Journal of the American Medical Association study that measures are confusing, and create inefficiency that pushes costs higher.
Grant would support partnerships with clinicians working in Boston Children's psychology department.
One issue driving the change: 30.7 percent of insured consumers said that the cost was lower than another source of care.
The market for physician assistants is booming, according to a new report, though earnings vary across specialties.
They want higher staffing levels, better pay and retention efforts and a stronger voice in patient care delivery, organizers say.
On average, specialists earned $284,000 a year while primary care physicians earned about $195,000, according to the survey, which polled 19,500 physicians across 25 specialties.
New law reinforces the need for hospitals and health systems to establish strategic ties with physicians, ratings agency says.
The group's first priority is advancing the Medicare doctor payment legislation pending in the Senate because it includes a provision requiring Medicare to release for broader use a substantial amount of data on claims at the provider level.
Sneakers used as bait to lure low-income and homeless people to corrupt medical clinics, indictment alleges.