And under RVU-based models, even routine time off becomes risky. Vacation, continuing medical education, or parental leave ...

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 — ...

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 — ...

Hospitals are increasingly employing physicians to gain market share and integrate providers into hospital operations, creating a problem for surgery centers that depend on surgical case volume from ...

The federal government has greatly increased its regulatory efforts related to investigating, prosecuting and combating healthcare fraud.1 This focus, combined with the movement of physician providers ...

The decadelong decline of independent physicians rolled on in 2022 and 2023 with a new high of 77.6% doctors employed by hospitals or other corporate entities as of the new year, according to a new ...

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule to ban “noncompete clauses”—employment terms that prevent workers from competing with their employers after their employment ...

This study found no evidence that hospital employment of physicians resulted in physicians treating sicker patients, undercutting claims that hospital-employed physicians serve a higher-acuity patient ...