title: Bending the cost curve and increasing revenue: a family medicine model that works!
abstract: This article attempts to illustrate ways in which family physician practices are able to demonstrate high value, enhanced quality, and streamlined costs, essential components of practice sustainability. Specific examples are provided to assist practices to consider questions and information that allow for skillful engagement during contract negotiations, consider increasing practice revenues by adopting practice enhancements that make sense for the location of the practice and community needs, develop workflow analyses, and review opportunities for expense reduction.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles, Culver City, CA 90230, USA. bjkatz@mednet.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Bernard J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.forename: Mark R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Needham
mesh_terms: D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D032982:Contracts; D003954:Diagnostic Services / Q000191:economics; D005194:Family Practice / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D005376:Financial Management; D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States; D057188:Workflow