title: Advisory group to hospitals: snap up physician practices.
abstract: To protect long-term profitability, hospitals should acquire primary-care and specialty physician practices, according to the Health Care Advisory Board. Such a move guarantees hospitals control over where patients are sent for expensive procedures as well as the expenses physician-employees incur to care for their patients, something that's nearly impossible to do with independent practitioners.
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authors: Perry
mesh_terms: D004465:Economic Competition; D006754:Hospital Restructuring; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D014481:United States