{"title":"How we moved our doctors back to market fitness.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How does an integrated health system facing market turndown and tremendous losses on its acquired physician practices get back to market sanity? That question is one that many hundreds of hospitals and health systems are trying to answer, as they attempt to disentangle themselves from physician practice purchases of the past decade that have not worked out as planned. The example of one Midwestern health system provides a classic case study in how to turn around the very common \"we-bought-all-these-docs'-practices-too-high-now-what-do-we-do\" scenario plaguing health systems across the country. A senior executive in charge of the physician-practices turnaround at one system spoke at length recently with Physician Performance & Payment Report about his organization's experiences and ongoing turnaround. He has asked that the name and location of the organization and his own name be obscured. Here is his organization's story.</p>","PeriodicalId":80299,"journal":{"name":"Physician performance & payment report","volume":"1 1","pages":"1, 5-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21817279","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":"Survey confirms health systems' losses on MD practices.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hospital-based organizations continue to face financial problems arising from their outright purchases of physician practices over the past several years, a recent nationwide survey confirms. The survey of 322 acute-care hospitals and systems by the consulting and research firm Longshore + Simmons, Conshohocken, PA, reinforces the theme of other recent data coming out of provider organizations: Hospital-based organizations are losing lots of money on their acquired physician practices. And while many industry experts see a trend toward realignment of incentives, current prospects are not very good.</p>","PeriodicalId":80299,"journal":{"name":"Physician performance & payment report","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21817277","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":"Compensation challenges in specialist groups: a guide for the uninitiated.","authors":"D K Zismer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80299,"journal":{"name":"Physician performance & payment report","volume":"1 1","pages":"9-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21817281","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}