Gain-sharing with the hospital: what is possible in the current legal environment.
This article focuses on the idea of gain-sharing, defined as engagement between the hospitals and physician to create effective joint processes, common outcome measures, joint accountability, and a sharing of results. Gain-sharing is a logical approach to addressing fragmented care, cost containment, and improved clinical outcomes. In particular, this article focuses on contracts under which a hospital or institutional provider retains an independent clinic or physicians to tackle specific issues of service line performance.
Torgerson
Paul M
PM
Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Suite 1500, 50 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402, USA. torgerson.paul@dorsey.com
D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D017721:Hospital Costs; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States