The Doctor's Bottom Line

Health Affairs

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 75-79

  Marsh, Lawrence C ^a  

^a NONE

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

CAPITAL FINANCING; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; HUMANS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0344454496     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.17.4.75     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. M. Porter, Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (New York: Free Press, 1980), 110.
2. American Medical Association, Medical Groups in the U.S.: A Survey of Practice Characteristics, 1995 ed. (Chicago: AMA, 1996), 43.
3. Examples of hospital contract service companies called PPMs include Pediatrix and EmCare (recently acquired by Laidlaw); physician practice asset buyers include many PPMs, including PhyCor and ProMedCo. Physician specialties that are being managed by PPMs range from orthopedics to cardiology to oncology to ophthalmology.
4. P. Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine (New York: Basic Books, 1982), 387.
5. Pacific Physician Services shares, which were first traded at $7.35 per share (stock split-adjusted) in May 1992, were bid up in value over the consequent year and rose as high as $29 by early 1993.
6. Coastal Healthcare Group, "Coastal Healthcare Group Completes Acquisition of Primary Care Network" (Press release, 1 July 1993); and "Coastal Healthcare Group to Acquire Two Health-Care Networks" (Press release, 27 January 1994).
7. Coastal Healthcare Group, "Coastal Healthcare Group Completes Acquisition of Primary Care Network" (Press release, 1 July 1993); and "Coastal Healthcare Group to Acquire Two Health-Care Networks" (Press release, 27 January 1994).
8. Coastal Healthcare Group, "Coastal Healthcare Group Completes Acquisition of Health Enterprises" (Press release, 11 November 1994).
9. Coastal Healthcare Group, "Coastal Healthcare Group First Quarter Net 27 Cents per Share, Lagging Estimates" (Press release, 27 April 1995).
10. Coastal Healthcare Group, "Coastal Healthcare Group Announces Third Quarter and Nine Month Financial Results" (Press release, 1 November 1997).
11. J.C. Robinson, "Financial Capital and Intellectual Capital in Physician Practice Management," Health Affairs (July/August 1998): 53-74.
12. L. Marsh and A. Feinstein, PhyCor/MedPartners: The PPM World Quakes (New York: Salomon Brothers, November 1997).
13. L. Marsh and A. Feinstein, Of Minds and Men: Changing Behavior in the New Physician Enterprise (New York: Salomon Brothers, March 1997), 2.