title: Determinants of specialty physician practice management integration.
abstract: Physicians increasingly organize strategically to mitigate the potentially adverse impacts of managed care on practice incomes. There are alternative routes to physician organizing. This article used a 1996-1997 survey of orthopedics and obstetrics-gynecology (OB-GYN) practices in Memphis, Tennessee, to investigate the determinants of specialty physician integration through physician practice management (PPM) firms. The percentage of managed care contracts indicates a weak but positive correlation with PPM integration. Different factors appear to influence the likelihood of integration in different specialties.
authors.affiliation: University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Okunade
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Aronoff
mesh_terms: D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D008511:Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D020399:Practice Management / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013038:Specialization; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States