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Issue Date: March 1998

Houston Company Offers Practice Management Services to DPMs
Like many physicians today, podiatrists are spending too much time on the business of medicine and less time doing what they want, caring for patients. Even for podiatrists who are successful at juggling the business and the practice of medicine, operating solo or in a small group can be a

Looking Ahead to Managed Care’s Future
Predicting the future of today’s health care trends is difficult. Even so, we have faced this daunting challenge since our first issue in February 1996 in an effort to keep physicians aware of what is happening—and could happen—in the rapidly changing health care market. Most recently, we

Physicians, Hospitals Need New Forms of Partnership
In many ways, the movement by hospitals to buy and use physician practices to build integrated care networks has been unsuccessful. Hospitals have seen lucrative practice revenue shrink after buying physician groups, and physicians have become greatly dissatisfied with hospitals as employers.
Even so, almost 50% of U.S.

Endocrinologists Use Disease Management to Prove Their Value to MCOs
It’s a classic controversy in managed care: Health plans limit access to specialists, arguing that such care is often not cost effective. Specialists contend that they can provide better care to patients with chronic or serious illness and do so more cost effectively than the typical primary care physician (

Group Works Hard to Remain Independent
As more small, private practices join multispecialty groups and large provider organizations, Concord Health Associates, in Concord, Mass., remains staunchly—and successfully—independent. Constant vigilance, strong management skills, and the right mix of clinicians are keys to the success of this four-physician group located in Concord’s Emerson Hospital.

MSO Executive Says Physician Groups Can Have Independence and Market Clout
Q: Dr. Gallup, please tell us about Choice HealthSource and what it does.
A:Choice HealthSource is owned by Community Health Partners (CHP), a multispecialty independent practice association. CHP, which is about two years old, started out with only 20 independent primary care physicians and now has 85 primary

To Avoid Penalties, Group Practices Need to Know the Self-referral Law
The increasing prevalence of managed care has contributed to a rise in physician aggregation. While physicians participating in ventures with other physicians can improve patient care, increase efficiencies, and enable physicians to be more successful in a highly competitive market, such participation requires physicians to pay careful attention to complex

Closely Held PPMCs May Be Worth a Look
Much of the press coverage about physician practice management companies (PPMCs) has focused on the more than 40 such organizations that are publicly traded. Among the reasons the publicly traded companies get more attention is public offerings are widely reported and PPMC stock prices have risen dramatically. At least as

Podiatry Network Finds Success Offering Capitated Contracts to Health Plans
This case study discusses how a single-specialty podiatric group in the South and Mid-Atlantic regions has grown by successfully managing capitation contracts with managed care organizations.

New Models of Market Development Offer Insight Into Managed Care Growth
This article discusses various factors that physicians should focus on when evaluating their strategic options, especially factors that are specific to their market.