title: New market forces are special challenge to academic health centers.
abstract: New market forces--insurer integration into the provider business, "mega-mergers, price and premium reductions, a scramble to create specialty carve-out networks, and the like--have emerged that are placing significant pressure on academic medical centers. All of these forces are accelerating the pace of managed care market maturation. In order to effectively compete in this new marketplace, academic health centers have substantial barriers to overcome. To do so will require the creation of a system to manage the health care of populations while minimizing system costs and maximizing quality. This will require the establishment of a unified medical center approach to markets and value management. Academic health centers will by necessity develop strategies to include strong primary care-based network affiliations in order to accomplish these tasks.
authors.affiliation: American Clinical Management, Inc., San Francisco, USA.
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Golembesky
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D004465:Economic Competition / Q000639:trends*; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006754:Hospital Restructuring; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D011320:Primary Health Care; D014481:United States