title: 7 steps for evaluating primary care practice ownership.
abstract: Hospitals shouldn't dismiss a primary care practice ownership strategy from the outset. Instead, it's important to learn from past missteps and conduct a thorough analysis of the opportunity by focusing on population growth and demographics, hospital utilization rates, disease and illness rates, physician supply and demand, market share, case-mix index, other hospital-owned physician practices, and concerns pertinent to the potential development site.
authors.affiliation: Martha Jefferson Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, USA. Michael.Boblitz@mjh.org
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Boblitz
authors.forename: Jon M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Thompson
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D004465:Economic Competition / Q000639:trends; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006739:Hospital Administration; D010067:Ownership; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States