title: Hospital-physician joint ventures: maximizing the potential.
abstract: Four primary hospital-physician models are per-click service agreements, management services agreements, gainsharing, and equity joint ventures. Four key attributes needed for successful joint ventures are clinical quality, customer satisfaction, operational effectiveness, and financial soundness. Hospitals and physicians need to approach joint ventures with expectations of high performance.
authors.affiliation: Accenture's Health & Life Sciences, Chicago, USA. james.j.pizzo@accenture.com
authors.forename: James J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Pizzo
authors.forename: Lewis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Redd
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008330:Management Audit; D021661:Management Service Organizations; D017146:Models, Organizational; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States