Creating New Hospital-Physician Collaboration Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The Development of Medical Groups: The Growing Importance of Physicians to Hospitals	5
2	The Evolution of the Economics of Medical Practice	17
3	The Health Care Market and the Control of Health Care Delivery	27
4	Vertical Integration: The Search for New Competitive Health Care Delivery Structures	37
5	Integrated Strategic Planning for Hospitals and Medical Groups	49
6	Legal Issues for Hospital-Physician Networking	69
	Appendix 6.1: Example of a Physician Employment Agreement	81
7	Assessing the Leadership Politics of Medical Groups	85
8	Assessing Medical Group Management and Business Systems	103
9	Linking Hospitals and Medical Groups via Management Service Agreements	119
	Case 9.1: Midwest Hospital Corporation and Northland OB/GYN, P.A.	130
10	Medical Group and Hospital Joint Ventures and Shared Ownership of Medical Groups by Hospitals	135
	Case 10.1: Metropolitan Sports Medicine Center	151
	Case 10.2: Midwest Hospital Corporation and Family Physicians of Deerfield, P.A.	153
11	The Acquisition and Development of Medical Groups by Hospitals	157
	Case 11.1: Acquisition of the James Nelson, M.D., Practice by St. Mary's Hospital	167
12	Hospital-Physician Networking Success	171
	Index	179
	About the Authors	185