Integrating the Practice of Medicine : A Decision Maker's Guide to Organizing

This interdisciplinary guide explains the complex structural changes going on in the physician practice industry and explores contemporary issues in physician practice management. Experts in accounting, health administration, law, and economics explain essential methods of delivering physician services and provide workable physician-hospital integration models.

Contributors
Preface

Chapter 1 : The Current State of the Physician Services Market

Part I : Changes in Physician Supply and Practice Organizations
Chapter 2 : The Supply of Physicians
Chapter 3 : Physician Practice Size, 1991-1995

Part II : Physician Compensation and Reimbursement Mechanisms
Chapter 4 : Reimbursement for Physician Services
Chapter 5 : Reimbursement for Physician Services in a Capitated Environment
Chapter 6 : National Trends in Physician Income
Chapter 7 : Legal and Financial Considerations of Physician Compensation in the Institutional Setting

Part III : Physician Services Organization and Delivery
Chapter 8 : Legal and Tax Consequences of Organizing Physician Practices
Chapter 9 : Physician Services Management Issues
Chapter 10 : The Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine

Part IV : The Valuation and Sale of Physician Practices
Chapter 11 : The Valuation of Physician Practices
Chapter 12 : Physician Practice Acquisition/Divestiture: A Case Study

Part V : Evolving Physician Practice Organizational Models
Chapter 13 : Integrated Delivery Systems
Chapter 14 : Independent Practice Associations
Chapter 15 : Group Practice Affiliation Structures
Chapter 16 : Physician-Hospital Organizations
Chapter 17 : Physician-Hospital Organizations: Strategy, Structure, and Conduct

Part VI : Management Services Organizations
Chapter 18 : Evolution of Management Services Organizations
Chapter 19 : The Management Services Organization Industry
Chapter 20 : Visions of the Future: CEO Perspectives

Part VII : The Future of Physician Services in the Managed Care Environment
Chapter 21 : Speculations on the Continued Growth of Managed Care
Chapter 22 : Managed Care and the Evolution of Physician Services

Index