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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.

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.

Executive touts remote care platform for episodic, bundled and chronic care management programs.

Standard now will be reviewed by the Office of Administrative Law, which proponents expect will approve the new rules.

2015 survey found 15 percent of pediatric residents at Stanford had experienced, witnessed mistreatment of medical residents by patients or families.

On Tuesday, the NLRB rejected Prime's appeal of a 2014 regional NLRB ruling requiring the health system to pay employees the annual raises.

The study saw little difference in patient mortality, hospital readmissions within 30 days, lengths of stay or specialty consultant use among patients treated by the expanded PA group and those treated by the conventional group.

The company will use a sequencing test developed by the health system to find and target individual mutations within cancer tumors.

Hawaii and Massachusetts earn nearly as much as those in California, with average annual salaries of $90,000 and $88,000, respectively.