Proper respect.
There is no reason the expect that governmental and other efforts to regulate medical practice in the interest of cost containment will abate even though there is general skepticism that it will produce meaningful savings. In this situation, multispecialty group practices should continue to exploit the comparatively favorable climate that they now enjoy by insisting that their incentives and performances should replace outmoded models as benchmarks of efficiency and quality for the national agenda, especially as the sentiment for some sort of national health care system increases.
Johnson
J D
JD
Permanente Medical Groups, Washington, DC.
D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D006123:Group Practice / Q000191:economics*; D006125:Group Practice, Prepaid / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D015895:Relative Value Scales; D014481:United States