Hospital-physician joint ventures: threat-or opportunity?
Physicians are increasingly drifting away from their hospitals to form ventures that compete with those very hospitals. Healthcare executives are being pressed to think of creative ways to maintain relationships with their physicians and "stay in the swim" of the revenue stream generated by ancillary services. Among these arrangements are integrated "centers ol excellence," ancillary services joint ventures, physician medical director-management relationships, and exclusive specialty services contracts.
Quarles & Brady, LLP, Milwaukee, USA. rstrode@quarles.com
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D004465:Economic Competition; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D017146:Models, Organizational; D014481:United States