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Issue Date: March 15, 2002
Policies Protect Against Compliance Failures
This article discusses what physicians should know about malpractice insurance policies, such as the cost of policies and what they do and do not cover.
Defined Contribution Plans Create Options
This editorial discusses the emergence of "consumer-driven" health plans as a cost-control strategy for employers and as the plan of choice for consumers who prefer less restrictive forms of managed care.
Automating Patient History Boosts Physician Productivity
This article discusses how physicians can use software programs to take their patients' histories. In particular, it highlights the software developed by Allen Wenner, MD, and discusses how he uses it in practice and the benefits that he has seen from doing so.
Groups Seek to Improve Operations
This article discusses the use of cost-benefit analysis by high-performance physicians, and how better performing medical practices link compensation to physician personal production.
Physicians Need Support to Survive
This article discusses reasons some physician practices fail; namely, ineffective strategies in capitalization, alignment of interests, compensation programs, management expertise, and technology. The article also suggests factors to consider in each of these areas to avoid going under.
Surgeon Says Collaboration Helps Physicians, Hospitals Succeed
In this interview, Kenneth Cohn, MD, MBA, a consultant with the Cambridge Management Group, discusses how today's managed care environment and declining reimbursement are forcing physicians and hospitals to work interdependently.
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