Ethical considerations for business relationships of hospitals and physicians.
As more hospitals and physicians seek to establish joint business-based ventures, their ethical consequences are being sidestepped. As a result, the traditional ethical expectation of a patient's well-being as the primary concern in providing medical care appears to be replaced by hospital and physician financial interests. So legislation is likely to be enacted to prevent any business relationships between hospitals and physicians.
Institute of Health Administration, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
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D003132:Commerce / Q000592:standards; D003361:Cost Allocation; D004465:Economic Competition; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D035082:Federal Government; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D014481:United States