{"title":"An alternative view on PCP practice acquisition. New Towers Perrin study contradicts conventional wisdom on practice acquisition losses.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80073,"journal":{"name":"Medical network strategy report","volume":"8 6","pages":"10-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21399772","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":"At Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, unity in diversity.","authors":"M Hagland","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Kelsey-Seybold Clinic (KSC), the Houston metro market's dominant physician organization, finds itself at a crossroads these days. As a tightly knit multispecialty group with strong physician leadership and significant opportunities for expansion in a rapidly-expanding healthcare market, KSC faces multiple challenges related to health plan consolidation and the ins and outs of capitation. Theirs is a situation epigrammatic of the challenges facing highly evolved medical organizations nationwide.</p>","PeriodicalId":80073,"journal":{"name":"Medical network strategy report","volume":"8 6","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21399770","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":"Time for physicians to reconfigure.","authors":"K Miller, M Eliastam","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The days when medical professionals made unilateral patient-care decisions are gone. Accelerating trends are converging to create a climate for what we call \"consumer-centric healthcare,\" and that raises new and unsettling questions for physicians.</p>","PeriodicalId":80073,"journal":{"name":"Medical network strategy report","volume":"8 6","pages":"1, 7-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21399771","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":"Southern California hospitals find health plans less than hospitable.","authors":"K Sandrick","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80073,"journal":{"name":"Medical network strategy report","volume":"8 6","pages":"8-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21399773","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":"Pacific Business Group on Health spotlights MD group quality.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For the first time ever, a powerful California-based purchasing coalition goes directly to the provider level to spotlight quality achievement, hoping to stimulate broader purchaser and consumer interest in physician group quality measurement.</p>","PeriodicalId":80073,"journal":{"name":"Medical network strategy report","volume":"8 5","pages":"1, 8-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21255210","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":"Managed care and charity care: on a collision course?","authors":"K Sandrick","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80073,"journal":{"name":"Medical network strategy report","volume":"8 5","pages":"10-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21255211","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":"Contact capitation: boon or bane?","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Capitation has shown itself to be a challenging form of payment to work with from a number of standpoints. Not only does it require the alignment of relationships between and among primary care physicians and specialists via explicit contracting and financial terms, but it requires organization of all types of physicians across entire health-care markets, and sophisticated data analysis for success. Now, a still-new form of capitation called \"contact capitation\" is evolving. It seems to hold promise in terms of resolving some short-term administrative problems. But can it offer improvement in alignment of incentives long-term? This article looks at the growth of contact capitation as a payment distribution strategy, and its opportunities, pitfalls, and issues in terms of physician organization and integrated delivery objectives.</p>","PeriodicalId":80073,"journal":{"name":"Medical network strategy report","volume":"8 5","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21255209","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":"Time for institutions to rethink physician motivation.","authors":"B K Brightman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80073,"journal":{"name":"Medical network strategy report","volume":"8 4","pages":"1, 7-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21221474","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":"Are house calls the answer to chronic care system redesign?","authors":"T Binius","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80073,"journal":{"name":"Medical network strategy report","volume":"8 4","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21221473","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":"New-era organizations will need a \"consumer-innovative\" culture and five core competencies.","authors":"R D'Amaro, T Newmyer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80073,"journal":{"name":"Medical network strategy report","volume":"8 4","pages":"10-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21221475","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}