The corporate practice of medicine : competition and innovation in health care / James C. Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, James C. (James Claude), 1953-

Contributor:

Milbank Memorial Fund.

Series:

California/Milbank series on health and the public ; 1.

California/Milbank series on health and the public ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical corporations--United States.

Medical corporations.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 261 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1999]

Summary:

One of the country's leading health economists presents a provocative analysis of the transformation of American medicine from a system of professional dominance to an industry under corporate control.

Robinson focuses on physician organization to illustrate how external pressures have led to health care innovations: multispecialty medical groups, Independent Practice Associations (IPAs), physician practice management firms, and physician-hospital organizations. These new organizations have evolved in the past two decades by adopting from the larger corporate sector similar forms of ownership, governance, finance, compensation, and marketing.

Forcefully written and thoroughly documented, The Corporate Practice of Medicine presents a thoughtful -- and optimistic -- view of a future health care system, one in which physician entrepreneurship is a dynamic component.

Notes:

"A copublication with the Milbank Memorial Fund."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index.

ISBN:

0520220757

0520220765

OCLC:

40776795