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Issue Date: September 1996
How Specialists Can Thrive Under Managed Care
No doubt you’ve read horror stories about the dismal prospects for specialists. By the year 2000, a surplus of 185,000 specialists has been projected by the Advisory Company, in Washington, D.C., an association for health care providers. Many specialists will be unemployed, observers say. Those specialists who
Attraction of MSOs
Management services organizations (MSOs) recently have become an attractive practice management option for physicians seeking to consolidate into groups. Physicians recognize that they need size to compete in managed care, to expand, to acquire other practices, to build infrastructure, and to develop information systems. While affording physicians some market clout,
Primary Concern: Group Practice Lists Six Keys to Success
One of the operating principles of our company is that organized, well managed primary care physicians will control more of the funds coming into health care than any other segment of medicine. We believe strongly that primary care physician groups can control specialty and hospital usage significantly. When we adopted
How Managed Care Influence Affects Market Transitions
Q: Dr. Sokolov, is it your impression that managed care is moving from West to East and that the big markets of the Northeast, the Mid-Atlantic states, and Southeast, have yet to mature?
A:In general, that’s correct. The challenge here, though, is that managed care the
Success Factors for Physician Companies
Health care is at the dawn of a new age, a dawn of changes in the physician services market and other health care sectors. Smart investors and forward-thinking doctors have shown in the last 15 months that they are beginning to appreciate the opportunities that exist for physicians. Indeed,
Health Plan Manages A Medicare-risk Contract
A health plan opened a new medical center to serve a predominantly senior population and to expand the geographical coverage of its medical group. Initially, the health plan hired two full-time primary care physicians—one in family practice and one in internal medicine—to manage a senior membership of
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