title: Cause and effect. Understanding the production-profit relationship.
abstract: Regardless of administrative performance in managing reimbursement and overhead, income will fall below expectations if physician productivity fails to reach key thresholds. How do group practice administrators "manage" physician production levels when the owners can frequently undervalue the relationship between compensation levels and their own productivity?
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  carefully and indirectly.
authors.affiliation: Health Care Futures LP, Edina, Minn., USA. hcfcraig@aol.com
authors.forename: Craig D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Pederson
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006123:Group Practice; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States