{"title":"Antitrust issues for medical groups.","authors":"F Gamma","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many medical groups may not regularly seek legal advice in regard to all the various business transactions in which they participate. Unlike hospitals, medical groups do not usually retain specialized health care law firms. As this professional paper illustrates, it is important for medical group administrators to have some familiarity with antitrust issues. This knowledge is important for administrators in two contexts: First, to keep their own groups from having antitrust problems; and second, to keep a watch on their competitors to be sure that the group's position is not compromised by any illegal activities engaged in by these entities.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"9 1","pages":"48-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20991094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a work rehabilitation center.","authors":"D G Shores","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Because many employees re-injure themselves upon returning to the workplace after rehabilitation, it became apparent (especially in the era of rising workmans compensation costs) that some employees' jobs needed to be modified. In this case study, a work rehabilitation center with work-hardening and physical conditioning was considered a viable solution.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"9 1","pages":"41-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20991314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low osmolar contrast media: a quality and cost dilemma.","authors":"J R Ostrander","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As a medical group manager, cost/benefit decisions will not often be yours to make alone. But your participation--especially on cost, reimbursement and legal matters--can be valuable. It should be presented in a thorough and factual manner. Your role in getting others to accept the decision can also be vital and accomplished by providing pre-decision information and feedback once the decision has been implemented.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"9 2","pages":"25-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20994467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Criteria for determining medical practice management skills requirements: a case study.","authors":"J A McGee-Cory","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Faced with the responsibility of filling a management void, the group could not reach a consensus as to what level of manager to recruit. While some physicians felt that the vacancy should be filled with an office manager-type individual (possibly promoting from within), others felt that the scope of lay management should be expanded.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"9 1","pages":"5-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20991095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Residency education: is it part of the future for your medical group?","authors":"W C White","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper focuses on the changes affecting residency training programs (graduate medical education). It presents a brief historical perspective on the financing of residency training, explores alternatives that training programs are experimenting with, and proposes a model for experimentation. The impact of these changes on group practice are assessed and recommendations made to assist medical groups in preparing for the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"8 1","pages":"23-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20981559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The physician as department administrator in an academic institution.","authors":"M Gillham","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the delivery of health care is operated like a business, physicians feel a sense of loss of autonomy and control over their profession. As both the payor and the consumer play more participatory roles in health care decisions, physicians are beginning to see an administrative role as partial satisfaction of the need to proactively plan for their specialty's future. This paper examines the physician administrator's role in an academic setting.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"8 1","pages":"5-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21032514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The creation of a coordinated ambulatory care system.","authors":"R L Slaton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This case study addresses the efforts of the School of Medicine (SOM) of a major American university to develop a coordinated ambulatory care system. For a number of years, each of the clinical departments of the SOM operated its clinic independently from the SOM and from the other departments. This is a description of the development of a plan to coordinate the efforts of these clinics.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"8 1","pages":"62-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21032516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fiduciary's guide to retirement plan management.","authors":"F J Dingler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most group practices have a retirement plan as part of their benefit package. However, groups have responsibilities well beyond funding to keep the plan qualified and in good standing with regulatory agencies. An additional complication is the federal government's frequent changes in the qualified pension laws. With these changes, compliance has become more complex and confusing.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"8 2","pages":"34-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20991169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The relationship between management practices and financing of family practice residency training programs.","authors":"J P Durrett","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper summarizes almost ten years of investigation in the area of financing of Family Practice Residency Training Programs. The author has been a co-principal investigator in this effort with responsibility for administration of two national surveys to study financing of the programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"8 1","pages":"31-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20981560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of database management software in a management information system.","authors":"M Sullivan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>If information is to play a useful role in the decision making process, an organization must design a system for capturing, organizing and presenting information from daily activities to its managers. Use of relational database management software to design a custom application as part of a management information system is both practical and cost effective. Designing a database management application is very challenging but well worth the effort, asserts the author of this case study.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"8 2","pages":"20-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20991168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}