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Issue Date: March 1996
Exercising Our Options as Physicians
The mission of Physician Practice Options is to give physicians the information, tools, and strategies they need to exercise their options. Those options include retaining your practice as is, bringing in a practice management consultant, selling your practice, merging with another practice, joining an integrated management organization, becoming a salaried
Should the Bottom Line Be a Barrier to Care?
As managed care assumes a larger role in the health system, Americans have become increasingly uneasy about seeking health care from for-profit managed care companies. We’re suddenly asking: Can we really trust managed care—or doctors driven by profit to provide less care—to do the right thing
How Doctors Can Thrive In the New Environment
Q:
Why did you write this book?
A: Two years ago, when I started talking to doctors about managed care, there simply wasn’t any tool that I could use to direct them to take home to sit down and think through what these changes mean. And so
Dartmouth Study On Variation Offers Lessons for Physicians
Data from the recently released Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, an analysis of 1993 Medicare data, show a crazy-quilt pattern in which costs for Medicare patients vary widely from one city to another nationwide. Scheduled to be published this spring by the American Hospital Association (AHA), the atlas is
Study Shows How Managed Care Reduces Costs, Mortality
Acute-care hospitals in cities with high levels of managed care have significantly lower costs, shorter lengths of stay, and lower mortality rates, according to a study by KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP, health care consultants in Los Angeles.
The study, “The Impact of Managed Care on U.S. Markets,”
Health Plan Costs Rose 2.1% in 1995
Employers’ health plan costs remained relatively stable in 1995, rising only 2.1%, according to Foster Higgins Inc., benefits consultants, in New York. In 1994, Foster Higgins reported employers’ health plan costs declined by 1.1%. Over the two years, the net change in costs was 1.1%, Foster Higgins
Milestones on the Way to Managed Care
Physicians making decisions about their practices under market-driven reform may find it useful to understand what happens in other markets as managed care takes hold.
Here’s but one example: Health care payers believe managed care is the only way to control costs. The traditional fee-for-service
Physician Management Companies Had a Watershed Year
Physician practice management (PPM) companies had a watershed year in 1995. Seven companies completed initial public offerings (IPOs), bringing the total number of significant public PPMs to 19, a growth rate of 58% over 1994. The vast majority of the public PPMs performed well during the year: 16 expected to
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