Contract management: does grafting this hospital concept onto group practice work?
Dramatic changes in the health industry during the past two decades should give physicians cause to look at where they are heading in the 1980s. External factors, such as competition, legislation and regulation, cost and expectations by the public urge serious review of whether group practices are planning effectively for the future and providing essential leadership to meet the challenges ahead. This article presents an innovation for group practices expecting to control rather than to be victims of, change.
D003284:Contract Services; D005376:Financial Management; D006123:Group Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States