Modern Physician October 19, 2012

By Jessica ZigmondOctober 19, 2012 Albuquerque-based Lovelace Health System has acquired Southwest Medical Associates, a physician practice that will retain its name, leadership and all 150 employees in the deal. No financial terms were disclosed, said a spokeswoman for Lovelace. Effective immediately, the transaction starts a new physician model for Lovelace that will rely on a mix of employed...

Prime Time October 19, 2012

Lovelace Senior Health Plan member Reymundo Horacitas said he did not particularly like having to change his primary care physician when that doctor left Lovelace’s network of providers last month. But Horacitas said it wasn’t as difficult as he had expected, and now he wants to publically show support for what he calls his “Lovelace family.” “I had heart surgery five years ago,” said the 75-...