September 1996 - Managedcaremag.com

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Labor Unions For Physicians: An Idea Whose Time Is Coming?

Managed care administrators needn’t have Socialist-realist nightmares of massed doctors on the march — not yet. But some physicians have reacted to today’s business pressures by organizing labor unions.

Trading Your Independence For a Guaranteed Salary

Doctors who sell to practice management companies like Florida’s Sheridan HealthCorp. are spared some of the uncertainties of today’s harried medicine. They also miss some of its satisfactions.

Physicians Must Create Their Own HMOs

For physicians, argues this managed care consultant, losing financial independence means losing clinical autonomy as well. His recommended solution: statewide, physician-owned HMOs.

Building the Right Incentives Into a Physician Payment System

Simple, production-based formulas for paying physicians won’t help a medical group or HMO thrive in today’s largely capitated world, says a physician recruiter. Instead, you need a “physician incentive program.”

Departments

MANAGING EDITOR’S MEMO

An Editor’s Problem: How To Stay Humble

STATE INITIATIVES

Measures To Limit Managed Care Will Appear on Two States’ Ballots

WASHINGTON INITIATIVES

New Federal Guidelines Will Ease Formation of Physician Networks

COMPENSATION MONITOR

What organizations offer when they recruit physicians

EMPLOYER UPDATE

Stitching a New HMO From Whole Blue Denim

LEGAL FORUM

Don’t Let One Bad Apple Spoil Your Medical Bunch

ETHICS

Bound or Gagged? Privacy, Confidentiality and CPR

MANAGED CARE OUTLOOK

Where’s the growth? In HMOs and point-of-service plans

News & Commentary

‘Hospitalists,’ an Evolving Specialty, Could Erode Primary Care Physicians’ Role

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Paul Lendner

Paul Lendner ist ein praktizierender Experte im Bereich Gesundheit, Medizin und Fitness. Er schreibt bereits seit über 5 Jahren für das Managed Care Mag. Mit seinen Artikeln, die einen einzigartigen Expertenstatus nachweisen, liefert er unseren Lesern nicht nur Mehrwert, sondern auch Hilfestellung bei ihren Problemen.