Through market observation it can be seen that there is a strong reemergence of physician employment by hospitals and health systems. The strategic logic for this reemergence is similar to the past — ...

Since the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, our industry has begun a transformation of the way healthcare is delivered in order to improve the quality of care while ...

Security or autonomy? The choice between employment and private practice is often painted in black and white terms, but the choice, and consequences, of any career path are rarely so simple. Here are ...

Independent physicians are becoming increasingly rare, with just 30% of U.S physicians practicing medicine independently as the year began, according to a new analysis from Avalere for the Physicians ...

Physician employment in hospitals has grown since 2007, as part of a greater strategy for hospital-physician alignment and increased service-line profits, according to a May report released by policy ...

More and more hospitals are employing physicians, but it isn’t helping them to improve quality scores in mortality rates, readmission rates, lengths of stay, or patient satisfaction. That’s the ...

Many physicians aren’t as familiar with RVUs as they’d like to be. Here’s some advice about RVUs in employment contracts from ...

Hospitals that hire physicians don't necessarily see a direct correlation to improved quality of care. While more hospitals switch to employment-based affiliations with physicians, an analysis ...

About 77% of physicians have moved away from independent settings, opting for employment by hospitals or health systems — and nine healthcare leaders joined Becker’s to discuss where these physicians ...

The percentage of hospitals hiring physicians climbed from 29% in 2003 to 42% in 2012, but physician employment alone probably won't improve hospital care, authors of a new study suggest. Kirstin W.