S J Kasmarcak | PubMed Health

PubMed1998

Physician network audits can improve financial performance.

A physician network audit is one way to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a network's performance in five key areas: practice operations, financial management, strategy and vision, managed care readiness, and organizational governance. An objective, comprehensive audit can help identify real versus perceived problems that are troubling a network. Then steps can be taken to align incentives and improve operating results.

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PubMed1997

Impact of tax sanctions on physician practice acquisitions and employment.

The intermediate tax sanctions create significant concerns for tax-exempt healthcare organizations that seek to integrate practicing physicians through practice acquisition or employment. The sanctions will force not-for-profit healthcare organizations to examine both the strategic and business implications of the dollars they have committed to practice acquisition and physician employment. The sanctions also should motivate organizations to reexamine their existing physician compensation arrangements, which may be creating negative incentives for practice productivity.

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