In response to a myriad of pressures, many hospitals once again have chosen to hire their own physicians. Although not a prime target, hospital medicine, still coming into its own as a medical ...

Paul Berggreen, MD, is a gastroenterologist based in Phoenix. He serves as president of the American Independent Medical Practice Association and chief strategy officer of GI Alliance, a nationwide ...

While consolidation activity remains high throughout healthcare and within surgical specialties, cardiology is seeing recent momentum toward independent practice, due to a number of factors. According ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Independent physician practices sit at a crossroads. After two decades of industry consolidation, most physicians now work for ...

Physicians in the U.S. are doing more work than ever before — but they’re getting paid less. This month, consulting firm Kaufman Hall released new research on work relative value units, or wRVUs, for ...

Corporate juggernauts are coming to dominate the U.S. health care system. UnitedHealth now employs 10 percent of all physicians in the United States. Hospitals signed up more than 58,000 new physician ...

Declining reimbursements, uncertainties about the future and the hassles and costs of running a practice have all combined to make many of today’s physicians yearn for some sense of security. In a ...

Over the past few years, significant shifts have occurred within the veterinary field, especially when it comes to veterinary practice ownership. Independent veterinary practices have increasingly ...

The most meaningful decisions in health care, those that impact people’s lives every day, should remain between the doctor and the patient. That principle guided me to found my own independent ...