title: Follow the money.
abstract: Like a torrent cutting its way to the main riverbed, investor capital is moving relentlessly into the physician practice business. It rolls on without any concern for the traditions that created the deep revenue pools of hospitals, specialists, and insurance companies--except for an irrepressible need to drain them.
authors.affiliation: Beckham Company, Whitefish Bay, WI, USA.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Beckham
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000639:trends*; D004470:Economics, Medical; D005194:Family Practice / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000639:trends; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000266:history*; D007449:Investments / Q000639:trends; D008511:Medicine / Q000639:trends; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000639:trends; D011332:Privatization / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital / Q000639:trends; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States