News Archive

April 29, 2015 - Hospitals aim to be prepared; many lack equipment and pediatric training for doctors and nurses. [ more ]

April 28, 2015 - Financial conditions for facilities remain tough.  As many as 30 rural hospitals in Kentucky and Kansas are at risk of closing due to financial duress, Becker's Hospital CFO has reported. [ more ]

April 27, 2015 - Hiring the best healthcare employees is only half the battle – once you have them, you need to keep them. A third of healthcare recruiters in the United States rank employee turnover as their top staffing concern this year, according to a new study by HealtheCareers. [ more ]

April 24, 2015 - Our Primary Care, Surgery and Psychiatry Department were very busy this week. [ more ]

April 22, 2015 - University of Michigan Medical School among those to revamp programs.

As the healthcare landscape evolves, so too does the way medical schools prepare doctors for the realities and challenges ahead--even if the specifics are unknown. The University of Michigan Medical School is one of many schools around the country that has phased out the model used for the past century to make way for greater emphasis on skills such as teamwork and communication, according to an article from Kaiser Health News. [ more ]

April 21, 2015 - Last year saw some modest good news for most physicians! [ more ]

April 16, 2015 - While providers and industry groups hailed Tuesday's long-awaited repeal of the controversial Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, some doctors who treat Medicare patients will still see the 21 percent reimbursement cuts that the Senate's last-minute vote was intended to avoid, The Hill reports. [ more ]

April 15, 2015 - Increased demand for services will only exacerbate the problems expected by the shortage of close to 90,000 physicians in the next 10 years, according to a new survey that examines 2015 trends in healthcare recruitment. [ more ]

April 13, 2015 - New York will be home for a new graduate this summer. [ more ]

April 10, 2015 - The Final Four can teach hospital leaders a lot about team-based care. [ more ]

April 9, 2015 - The nation's largest public health system faces new competition for patients newly insured under the Affordable Care Act and must win over those with "a newfound option" to seek care anywhere, its chief executive said. [ more ]

April 7, 2015 - Physicians who are productive and generate big revenue for the hospital systems that employ them will continue to earn high compensation, sometimes higher than hospital CEOs, experts say. [ more ]

March 30, 2015 - Texas, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey will all have new Physicians thanks to Alpha. [ more ]

March 20, 2015 - Congressional leaders Thursday announced a bipartisan, bicameral deal to permanently repeal Medicare's loathed sustainable growth-rate formula for paying doctors. Bills containing terms of the deal were introduced in both chambers of Congress. [ more ]

March 17, 2015 - A permanent "doc fix" plan—negotiated by House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi—will need to gain traction in the coming days if it's going to have a realistic shot at enactment. [ more ]

March 13, 2015 – Our Primary Care Department has been very busy this week, as well as our Psychiatry Team. [ more ]

March 12, 2015 - Perhaps healthcare spending is picking up again, data released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate. [ more ]

March 9, 2015 - The American Medical Association this week pledged its support for a compact developed by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) to make it easier for physicians to obtain licenses in multiple states. [ more ]

March 6, 2015 -  Facilities in Maryland, New Jersey and Maine will have new Physicians joining their staffs thanks to the efforts of Alpha Recruiters. [ more ]

March 5, 2015 - Trinity Health, one the country's largest not-for-profit health systems, improved its operating margin in the first half of its fiscal 2015 as volume increased and it benefited from a recent acquisition. [ more ]

February 27, 2015 - The merger of University of Arizona Health Network and Banner Health Friday highlights the stark challenges that academic medical centers face in the new economics of healthcare. [ more ]

February 25, 2015 - The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to codify the Affordable Care Act's controversial tax on generous employer health plans, and the agency is floating several exceptions to the rule. [ more ]

February 18, 2015 - While the possibility of a looming physician shortage remains a hot topic of debate, some recent reports suggest that the dearth of doctors is not a national problem, but a local one. [ more ]

February 11, 2015 - Passport Programs at More Hospitals Help Patients Communicate With Doctors, Overcome Feeling Powerless [ more ]

February 4, 2015  - As the trend of healthcare consolidation shows no signs of slowing down, strong physician leadership within an integrated organization can play a major role in determining that organization's success [ more ]

February 3, 2015 - Hospitals with lower credit ratings are finding they can borrow at rates once reserved only for higher rated hospitals thanks to a confluence of factors in the municipal bond market. [ more ]

January 29, 2015 - U.S. healthcare providers and insurers start from widely divergent places as some of the largest move to put most of their business into payment models that reward lower cost and higher quality care. [ more ]

January 21, 2015 - The healthcare sector of the U.S. economy will be hiring at a faster pace in 2015 as a healthier economy and shrinking uninsured population fuel an uptick in demand for routine and discretionary services. The era of hiring restraint—fueled by the recession and the steady rise in high-deductible plans—appears to be ending. [ more ]

January 20, 2015 - Florida Atlantic University's first class of medical students enjoy the White Coat Ceremony in 2011. The first students graduate in April. [ more ]

January 15, 2015 - It can take millions to save millions.  Hospitals throughout the country almost always focus their efforts on cutting costs and improving their bottom lines, often prodded to do so by insurers, employers and government officials. But initiatives to do so are not always as cut and dried. [ more ]

January 14, 2015 - Healthcare reform also a major issue cited in annual survey of executives. [ more ]

January 12, 2015 - Healthcare job growth rebounded in 2014, especially in the year's final quarter. December marked another robust month of hiring, contributing to nearly average employment gains for the year after five years of below-average growth. [ more ]

January 9, 2015 – Welcome to the New Year!  Several Healthcare Providers started 2015 by committing to new practices thanks to Alpha Medical Group recruiters. [ more ]

January 8, 2015 - Physicians face large possible Medicare pay cuts, implementation of the ICD-10 coding system, which they generally dislike, and having federal quality reporting programs switch from financial rewards to penalties. [ more ]

January 5, 2015 - Andy Pasternak, a family doctor in Reno, saw more than 100 new Medicaid patients last year after the state expanded the insurance program for the poor under the Affordable Care Act. [ more ]

December 30, 2014 - Hospitals and health systems have been rapidly employing physicians to help meet the goals of healthcare reform, but the integration has been far from smooth, a new report notes. [ more ]

December 23, 2014 - Here are 50 statistics on physicians in private practice, hospital employment and other arrangements about their financial situation and outlook for the future. [ more ]

December 22, 2014 – Pediatric Subspecialists and Hospitalists are Hot This Week [ more ]

December 17, 2014 - Consumer Reports survey indicates patients who felt disrespected were more likely to be victims of mistakes [ more ]

 December 15, 2014 - Survey of 20,000 U.S. Physicians: 80% of Doctors are Over-Extended or at Full Capacity [ more ]