title: Physician-hospital organizations: the "training wheels" of tomorrow's provider-sponsored networks?
abstract: The formation of regional physician-hospital organizations will be the next step in the evolution of managed care. Regional PHOs will have advantage over single-hospital PHOs by covering a wider population and geographic area, offering greater cost-effectiveness, and being able to contract as a unified provider. This, in turn, will set the stage for the next step in the process: the development of provider-sponsored networks.
authors.affiliation: Health Capital Group, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Unland
mesh_terms: D019058:Community Networks / Q000191:economics*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States