{"title":"Beyond the physician's office--the medical mall.","authors":"R A Felix","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Medical groups are often judged, whether we realize it or not, by the patient's satisfaction and not necessarily by the \"quality of care\" the patient receives. This paper examines the process in which a clinic determines how to best serve its market through the \"medical mall\" concept, offering a mix of services which accommodate the ambulatory patient's needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"6 2","pages":"30-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21175497","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":"Environmental impact--design with care.","authors":"J B Craw","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Attention to every detail of the environmental design of the medical group is of extreme importance. Management's familiarity with practice surroundings and layout is often a barrier to objectively scrutinizing it from the patient's point of view.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"6 1","pages":"27-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21163137","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 viable alternative to Medicare risk contracts and participation.","authors":"R V Stenson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Throughout the 1980s, Medicare has 'turned against its service suppliers' and began to literally rewrite the rules of the health insurance game. This paper is set in that changing environment and describes one supplier's response.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"6 1","pages":"59-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21175451","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 managed care option--proceed with caution.","authors":"J H Ross","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To understand managed care, it is important to look at its origins, growth and development, including prospects for the future. Managed care systems today are a major factor in health care delivery and may well dominate the delivery system in America during the 1990s.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"6 1","pages":"5-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21184175","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":"Medical practice mergers--a flexible combination of individual practices into an integrated multispecialty group.","authors":"R I King","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article outlines requirements for the establishment of new medical groups by previously independent physicians. Those interested in forming groups may want to use the information in this paper as a checklist for establishing an operational system of integrated practices that can deal more effectively with the increasing pressures of today's health care marketplace.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"5 1","pages":"5-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21172614","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 emergence of the non-profit foundation as a significant organizational format for group practice in California.","authors":"J R Johnson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The non-profit foundation is fast becoming a factor in the organizational structure of group practices. A growing number of group practices have adopted this format as a means of positioning themselves for survival and success in the turbulent, changing environment of the health care delivery system.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"5 2","pages":"5-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21161224","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":"Formation and operation of a captive insurance company for malpractice coverage.","authors":"R W Townsend","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the onset of the \"malpractice crisis\" of spiralling insurance costs in the 1970s, many medical groups began viewing self-insurance as a viable alternative to conventional carriers. Captive insurance companies are not without their risks, but continue to hold promise for controlling escalating insurance costs and providing a positive cash flow for the parent company.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"5 2","pages":"47-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21161223","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":"Profile of a woman clinic manager--revisited fifteen years later.","authors":"S A Babbitt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social changes in the past 15 years have had great influence on our nation's economy. Increased numbers of women in the workforce has been one of these changes. As organizations and the nation move forward in the next 15 years, women's positions in the work force and in leadership roles will have increasingly significant influence.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"5 2","pages":"17-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21172660","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":"Sell your practice to grow and compete--the synergism of vertical integration.","authors":"D L Robison","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are many advantages for selling a group practice to achieve vertical integration with a larger entity, including shared medical and management services, and greater efficiency, which results in greater profits. Health care in the 1990s will have a more formalized, structured system, greatly reducing freedoms enjoyed by both physicians and patients. An attractive option for smaller groups or solo practitioners is vertical integration.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"5 1","pages":"71-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21159184","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":"To participate or not; that was and is the question for Medicare providers.","authors":"D M Cogdill","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Only through an in-depth analysis can a group practice make an educated decision as to what is best for them from one year to the next. This paper explores the results experienced by a clinic after switching from selective assignment to full participation in Medicare.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"5 2","pages":"41-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21172661","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}