What does FPP stand for?

KMSF is the faculty practice plan for the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, a component of UK HealthCare that includes two hospital systems.

Our Feinberg School of Medicine works with Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH), an 897-bed inpatient and ambulatory care facility, in tight affiliation with the 650-physician Northwestern Memorial Faculty Foundation (NMFF), a specialty faculty practice plan.

Through interviews with key players involved in the decisions at George Washington University and Georgetown University, the author examines the advantages and disadvantages of selling and describes the problems that can afflict medical schools that separate from their faculty practice plans.

The university wants to use part of the mall space to house 160 employees from the University Hospitals and Carver College of Medicine Faculty Practice plan.

The degree of horizontal integration between clinical departments in a group practice structure, such as a faculty practice plan, and the extent of vertical integration between the teaching hospital and faculty practice vary enormously among AHCs.

Altria provides billing, data management and other services to medical practices, hospital systems, faculty practice plans and health-care networks.

Because higher education is in a constricting rather than an expanding mode, there will be an increasing expectation that physical therapy academicians and other faculty members generate up to one third of their annual salaries through obtainment of "soft" funding such as grants and contracts or through income generated for their departments in faculty practice plans.

Navigant Consulting has provided services to over 400 healthcare provider organizations across the United States, including hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, physician group practices, and faculty practice plans.