title: Raising the performance of owned physician practices.
abstract: A hospital-based medical group in the Pacific Northwest used a simple, recast income statement to illuminate its challenges, charged its physician leadership with overseeing the change process, and relied on supportive health system governance to provide the financing. Within 18 months, the group saw significant results in terms of both quantity and quality.
authors.affiliation: MultiCare Medical Group, Tacoma, Wash, USA.
authors.forename: Smokey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stover
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sauter
authors.forename: Cal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: James
mesh_terms: D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005375:Financial Audit; D006123:Group Practice / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007857:Leadership; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010067:Ownership / Q000191:economics*; D012984:Software; D014861:Washington