Physician Practices

Changes, Trends & Implications

Buch | Hardcover

146 Seiten

2013
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-62618-184-7 (ISBN)

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A growing number of U.S. physicians are combining their practices; affiliating with hospitals, insurance companies, and speciality management firms; or going to work directly for such organisations. The moves are part of a broader trend toward consolidation in health care, with the overall number of mergers and acquisitions in the sector at the highest level in a decade. Alterations in physician practice appear to be a response to a number of factors. Younger doctors are more eager than their predecessors to work for an outside institution, such as a hospital, to secure a set schedule and salary. Private practices have become more complex to manage, even as physician compensation has been declining. This book provides background on the factors contributing to changes in physician practice organisation, including physician supply, lifestyle changes, and government incentives, with a focus on different types of integration, the legal intricacies of affiliation, and the possible implications for consumer and federal policy.

Preface; Physician Practices: Background, Organization, & Market Consolidation; Physician Supply & the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act; Official Hearing Memo for Health Care Realignment & Regulation: The Demise of Small & Solo Medical Practices?; Testimony of Mark Smith, President, Merritt Hawkins. Hearing on "Health Care Realignment & Regulation: The Demise of Small & Solo Medical Practices?"; Testimony of Dr Louis McIntyre, Westchester Orthopedic Associates. Hearing on "Health Care Realignment & Regulation: The Demise of Small & Solo Medical Practices?"; Statement of Joseph M Yasso, Jr., D.O., Heritage Physicians Group. Hearing on "Health Care Realignment & Regulation: The Demise of Small & Solo Medical Practices?"; Statement of Scott Gottlieb, M.D., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute. Hearing on "Health Care Consolidation & Competition after PPACA"; Testimony of Edmund F Haislmaier, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Health Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation. Hearing on "Health Care Consolidation & Competition after PPACA"; Statement of Thomas L Greaney, Co-Director, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law. Hearing on "Health Care Consolidation & Competition after PPACA"; Statement of Martin Gaynor, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University. Hearing on "Health Care Industry Consolidation"; Statement of Paul B Ginsburg, President, Center for Studying Health System Change. Hearing on "Health Care Industry Consolidation"; Index.

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	412 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
ISBN-10	1-62618-184-5 / 1626181845
ISBN-13	978-1-62618-184-7 / 9781626181847
Zustand	Neuware