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More practices offer docs part-time, job-sharing perks
Despite a long-held line of thinking that part-time and flexible physician work options posed too many cultural and logistical challenges for practices, growing numbers of groups are finding ways to
Accountable care drives demand for NPs, PAs
With physician shortages widespread and pressure to create teams to deliver more accountable care, demand for nurse practitioners and physician assistants is growing rapidly. According to the
AMGA: Most medical groups operating at a loss
With very slight increases in compensation across specialties, most medical groups operated at a significant financial loss in 2010, reveals the American Medical Group Association's (AMGA) "2011
Doc groups stuff ACO suggestion box with complaints
The public comment period for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) proposed rule regarding accountable care organizations (ACOs) closed June 6, and major organizations that
ACO regs are 'overly prescriptive, operationally burdensome,' docs say
The American Medical Group Association has pushed back on the Obama Administration's recently released regulations on accountable care organizations, claiming they are too costly and complex to
Prepare for increased physician turnover in 2011
For the first time since 2008, physician turnover is up, a possible sign that unhappy doctors who'd decided to stay put in a shaky economy now are feeling safe to make a change, suggests the sixth
