Hospital-Physician Arrangements and Hospital Financial Performance

Medical Care

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-78

  Mark, Tami L ^a,c   Evans, William N ^a,b   Schur, Claudia L ^a   Guterman, Stuart ^d  

^a Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c MEDSTAT GROUP   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Cost functions; Hospital physician relations; Profit functions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, HOSPITAL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL-PHYSICIAN JOINT VENTURES; HOSPITAL-PHYSICIAN RELATIONS; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031606985     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199801000-00008     Document Type: Article

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