Teaching hospitals forced to redesign themselves

Article Abstract:

Teaching hospitals are expected to make major changes in the 1990s to adapt to pressures to control costs. The estimated $5.4 billion that Medicare pays teaching hospitals in teaching and uncompensated care subsidies is likely to be reduced in the 1990s. To compensate, hospitals emphasize their specialized services to attract well-financed payers. Yet, teaching hospitals are increasingly pressured to train more primary care physicians, which could weaken their ability to attract payers.

General medical & surgical hospitals, Forecasts and trends, Hospitals, Teaching, Teaching hospitals

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DOs gain acceptance, stature in organized medicine

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Osteopathic physicians (DOs) are moving into mainstream medical practice in increasing numbers as the stigma attached to osteopathic medicine fades. Osteopaths have been treated as outcasts in much of the medical community until recently, but many physicians see that MDs and DOs have much in common. Two thirds of DOs go into MD resident training programs and the American Medical Assn recruits them for membership.

Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Offices of osteopathic physicians, Osteopathic Physicians, Social aspects, Practice, Physicians, Medical professions, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Osteopathy, Osteopaths

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AMA makes bid for CME oversight

Article Abstract:

The AMA charges that the Accreditation Council for Continuing Education (ACCME) cannot adequately monitor the quality of continuing medical education programs, and seeks to operate the organization. In a Mar 10, 1992 letter to the seven medical groups that run the ACCME, the AMA offered to give the ACCME $250,000 a year for two years, office space, use of AMA personnel and help in founding a CME Institute.

Management, Contracts, American Medical Association, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

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