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Former West Houston Medical Center chief will assume leadership of Clear Lake October 24 after three decades with HCA, system says.
Only 25 percent of hospitals funded teams in 2013 that included a physician, advanced practice or RN, social worker, chaplain, analysis shows.
In fact, the sweeping Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, known as MACRA, was known to only 20 percent of physicians surveyed.
Tran has led finance teams for several top-ranked health plans.
TeamHealth now has oversight of more than 19,000 affiliated physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
Kaiser survey shows a slight increase in premiums, increase in deductibles and high-deductible plans coincides with 10 percent decrease in workers enrolled in PPO plans.
Talks between Allina Health negotiators and the Minnesota Nurses Association team broke off on September 3rd when the hospital team left the table, according to a statement by the nurses union.
Younger physicians tend to prefer larger practices, while older physicians in smaller practices are gradually retiring out of the workforce.
Coding quality is more important than ever, but other analytics tools are helping hospitals bridge the gap.
Hospitals added 10,700 jobs while ambulatory services added 12,900.