title: How physician organizations are responding to managed care.
abstract: Despite a rash of troubles in 1998, physician organizations--formed in response to managed care plans--can thrive if they are locally owned, physician-run and rationally sized, said panelists at a recent roundtable organized by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).  The panelists also noted the market's slow progress toward global capitation as a way of compensating physician organizations, and the generally weak state of information systems required to support the goals behind capitation: accountability, efficiency and quality.  This Issue Brief reports on governance, physician-hospital relationships, capital needs, compensation and other developments covered at the roundtable.
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authors.lastname: Havighurst
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee; D005544:Forecasting; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010820:Physicians; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States