title: Impact of managed care on physician organizational behavior.
abstract: This article examines how physicians act, react, and organize when managed care forces them to consolidate into larger groups and business corporations. Physicians have experimented with ownership by hospitals or business corporations to gain capital, management skills, and information systems. Now they're moving toward physician-owned groups with "outsourcing" of administrative and information system functions. The mood, movement, and momentum of physicians, in short, is toward integrated physician organizations bound together by information that amplifies on their core competencies and capacities to deliver care.
authors.affiliation: National Association of Integrated Health Organizations (NAIHO), USA. rreece1500@aol.com
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Reece
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration; D003657:Decision Making; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000639:trends*; D020416:Outsourced Services; D010067:Ownership; D020399:Practice Management / Q000639:trends; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States