News Archive

December 11, 2014 - Most physicians expect Congress will once again deliver an 11th-hour legislative "patch" around March 31 to override a 21% Medicare pay cut under the sustainable growth-rate formula. [ more ]

December 4, 2014 – Physician Placement Starting Salary Survey Report 2014. Report based on 2013 data: First year post residency or fellowship compensation. [ more ]

December 5, 2014 - High-Deductible Insurance Plans Prompt Some to Delay Treatment [ more ]

December 3, 2014 – Alpha Medical Group is excited to announce that today we have placed our 1,200 Physician into a new practice. [ more ]

November 22, 2014 - Medical white-coat ceremonies don't usually get much media attention. But when the Billings (Mont.) Clinic held its white-coat ceremony this past July to welcome its inaugural class of 12 internal medicine residents, "our mayor was there, our board was there, all the papers, radio and TV stations were there," said Dr. Roger Bush, the program's director. "That doesn't happen in Boston." [ more ]

November 18, 2014 - No clear answer to patient no-show struggle.  Do patients have a responsibility when they fail to follow-up with their physicians? Barron H. Lerner, MD, and professor of medicine and population health at NYU School of Medicine, explores this hazy ethical area in a New York Times editorial. [ more ]

November 17, 2014 - The Obama Administration Expects 9-10 Million to Be Covered, Far Below a CBO Forecast. Millions fewer people will enroll in private health plans under the Affordable Care Act next year than the Congressional Budget Office had predicted, the Obama administration said Monday. [ more ]

November 14, 2014 - Healthcare advocates worry new directive will further limit access to services.  A new ruling this week among Catholic bishops eases the process for mergers between the church and healthcare providers without compromising the former's positions on abortion, birth control, assisted suicide and direct sterilization. [ more ]

November 13, 2014 – A Quick Glance at Marketplace Movement.  [ more ]

November 10, 2014 - Healthcare hiring continues to rebound from a slump that slowed, but never halted, job growth. The sector added 24,500 jobs last month and nearly 257,000 jobs during the prior 12 months. [ more ]

November 7, 2014 - DaVita HealthCare Partners, which last month signaled it would expand its medical-group division into Colorado, announced a joint venture with Englewood, Colo.-based Centura Health. [ more ]

November 6, 2014 - Massachusetts has launched a new era of shopping. It began last week. Did you notice? [ more ]

November 5, 2104 – A Quick Glance at Marketplace Movement.  Pulmonology is hot this week. [ more ]

October 30, 2014 - The interview was last week and you thought you did great! The problem is you still haven't gotten a call back. Maybe the interview didn't go as well as you thought it did? [ more ]

October 29, 2014 - JAMA study highlights financial risks associated with acquisitions.  Hospitals and healthcare systems may want to rethink plans to acquire physician practices to increase care coordination. [ more ]

October 28, 2014 -  On this day in 2002 Alpha Medical Group began business with four recruiters recruiting in one discipline, Radiology. [ more ]

October 27, 2014 - What sets these doctor-led groups apart from hospital-led ACOs?  As the healthcare industry considers value-based healthcare models, organizations can look to physician-led accountable care organizations (ACOs) for successful examples. [ more ]

October 24, 2014 – Happy Clients, Happy Candidates.... We have three this week at Alpha Medical Group. [ more ]

October 23, 2014 - The Consumer Price Index for hospitals increased 0.3% in September after no change the month before, federal data show. [ more ]

October 21, 2014 – Five important reference-related employment trends healthcare job seekers should consider for the rest of 2014. [ more ]

October 22, 2014 - The mergers and acquisitions storm in the life sciences blew in fast and furious in the second quarter and petered out just as quickly. But the ripple effect roiled subsectors of the healthcare industry that previously had been quiet. [ more ]

October 20, 2014 – AAPA president John McGinnity says PAs can help solve the primary care shortage.  As the healthcare industry seeks to find ways to address the primary care shortage, a recent nationwide survey finds that patients are more open to care provided by physician assistants (PAs) ... [ more ]

October 17, 2014 – Patients of top-performing doctors were cared for at less expense and left the hospital earlier and in better health than those treated by doctors at the bottom of a new measure of physician value. [ more ]

October 16, 2014 – In the latest study to question the value of robotic surgery, researchers from Columbia University found that the technology costs significantly more and has a higher rate of complications than regular minimally invasive surgery for removing ovaries and ovarian cysts. [ more ]

October 14, 2014 – Healthcare gained a moderately strong 22,600 jobs in September, and revisions to July and August showed a net increase of 3,300 jobs, according to the Health Sector Economic Indicators briefs released by the Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending. [ more ]

October 13, 2014 – American doctors are increasingly unhappy with their once-vaunted calling, and it's hurting patients.  But the medical profession can help heal itself. [ more ]

October 10, 2014 – Our Primary Care Department was busy this week helping several Physicians secure a new position. [ more ]

October 9, 2014 - As the day wears on and doctors get tired, they're about 25 percent more likely than early in their shifts to prescribe antibiotics to patients who don't need them, according to a new study. [ more ]

October 2, 2014 - A recent study by Alpha Medical Group confirms that filling a Hospitalist opening is easier if your have a Nocturnist on staff. [ more ]

October 2, 2014 – According to an article recently posted on Dallas Business Journal blog by Bill Bethcock demand for physician assistants and nurse practitioners has skyrocketed more than 300 percent in the last three years... [ more ]

September 29, 2104 – Congratulations to Robert Longmuir who assisted one of Alpha's favorite Clients on Long Island in filling their Trauma Surgery need. [ more ]

September 26, 2014 - Three years after the CMS carefully selected 32 accountable care organizations deemed best able to manage the Pioneer program's financial risks, three more have decided they no longer want to. [ more ]

September 15, 2014 - Washington State University's board of regents on Friday unanimously approved the administration's controversial effort to start a new medical school in Spokane, citing the "dire need" for more doctors in the state. [ more ]

September 4, 2014 - September is Hunger Action Month and today was Hunger Action Day. To show support for Hunger Awareness, Feeding America asked people to wear Orange and Alpha's employees responded. [ more ]

August 28, 2014 - A half-million more low-income Pennsylvanians are in line to get federally funded health insurance after HHS on Thursday approved the state's plan to accept Medicaid expansion money under the landmark 2010 federal healthcare law. [ more ]

Monday, August 18, 2014 - CareerMD Career Fair [ more ]

August 13, 2014 - Doctors who are more accustomed to fielding patient questions about the benefits of procedures, tests, drugs and specialist referrals say patients increasingly are demanding answers to two additional questions: How much will it cost and do I really need it? [ more ]

August 12, 2014 - Robin Williams' apparent suicide Monday has spurred a torrent of discussion across media channels about depression, bipolar disorder, suicide, addiction and mental health issues overall. [ more ]

Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - CareerMD Career Fair [ more ]

July 15, 2014 - Some South Florida physicians are turning away Obamacare enrollees, at least partly out of concern that they will have trouble collecting from them given the high deductibles and co-insurance imposed by many of the new exchange health plans, the Miami Herald reports. [ more ]