title: Flexibility key to group practice in the age of managed care.
abstract: As changes in payment occur and managed care evolves, group practices are reclaiming influence over clinical care by assuming greater financial risk. Larger groups are becoming a force for change by using flexible structures to help improve a host of activities at the point of care. Group practices and their collaborative partners are refining their approaches to cooperative patient management, clinical utilization and quality, and risk contracting.
authors.affiliation: Cambridge Management Group, Inc., MA, USA.
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Netherton
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee; D019468:Disease Management; D006125:Group Practice, Prepaid / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012308:Risk Management / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States