Given the many recent developments in healthcare, physician salaries remain an important focus point. President Obama has placed tremendous focus on quality and outcome-based payment for services rendered. Yet, there remain many physicians whose salaries are guaranteed. The trend however is shifting towards incentive-based physician … [Read more...]
Physician Salaries – Guaranteed or Incentive-Based?
Physician Retention Survey Suggests Increased Physician Turnover through 2011
Fierce Practice Management reported today, that nearly 18,000 physician service providers responded to the sixth annual Physician Retention Survey, and results of the first quarter of the year suggest that by year-end physician turnover is going to reach a high. A significant increase in turnover was last found in the results of the 2008 survey. … [Read more...]
Biggest Complaints of Hospital-Employed Physicians
Physician employment opportunities are sprouting up in hospitals across the nation. However, as reported in the March 30th edition of New England Journal of Medicine, decisions made by physicians, in terms of employment, will bear repercussions for the practice and management of medicine, in the long-term. Some physicians, who have made that … [Read more...]
Current Physicians Stupefied over Government’s Physician Shortage “Solution”
Casper Mahler was my great-grandfather, and in his search for freedom, safety, and opportunity, in the late 1800s, he left Germany and migrated to the United States. His choice proved to be a wise one, as he learned that "the land of opportunity" did, in fact, exist. In raising his family, he taught my grandfather using the same principles: 'Dream … [Read more...]
Electronic Health Records Becoming More Commonplace in Healthcare Forum
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, American Diabetes Association, and American Cancer Society, have launched a program called the Guidelines Advantage, which fine-tunes data produced in Electronic Health Records. Physician service providers are utilizing this technology more, a March 31 edition of Modern Physician … [Read more...]