title: Remembering the specialists. After spending billions on primary-care networks, hospitals are cozying up to top revenue generators.
abstract: After hospitals and practice management companies spent the better part of this decade snapping up primary-care doctors, they suddenly remembered the specialists. You know, those guys in white coats who generate much of the revenues.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Jaklevic
mesh_terms: D004465:Economic Competition; D004470:Economics, Medical; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D007182:Income; D010560:Personnel Selection; D010816:Physician Incentive Plans; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States