The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, along with other economic forces, will significantly change the way hospitals and physicians work with one another. To measure that change, Modern Healthcare, in partnership with Press Ganey of South Bend, Indiana, is conducting an industrywide survey on hospital-physician relations.

The 2010 Hospital-Physician Relations Survey will examine the state of relations between hospitals and their employed physicians and how those relations may change. The survey is now open and is available to all readers of Modern Healthcare and sister publication Modern Physician. Readers can find the survey at http://modernhealthcare.com/surveys. The participation deadline is September 20, 2010.

Modern Healthcare and Press Ganey will analyze the results and report the findings in the November 8 issues of Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician.