The algebra of managed care. Creating physician and hospital partnerships.
As healthcare faces an economic reengineering, hospitals and physicians are faced with new challenges. It is the first time that they have had joint economic interests, and survival for both is dependent on designing new economic models. This article describes the economic interrelationship between hospitals and physicians and provides insight into opportunities to encourage new levels of collaboration between them.
Goodroe
J H
JH
Goodroe & Company, Atlanta, GA.
Murphy
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