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Issue Date: May 30, 2000
Provider-Owned Health Plans Struggle
This column provides a brief overview of health plan transactions and discusses factors contributing to the financial instability of some types of plans; it concludes that "the consistent and profitable management of hospitals, HMOs, and physicians" has not yet been demonstrated.
Urologists Seek To Improve Outcomes
This article discusses physicians' efforts to improve the quality of care they deliver; for example, one urologist videotaped the surgeries he performed in order to correlate actions during surgery with patients outcomes.
Niche Programs, Careful Marketing Help Seasonal Practice Succeed
This interview discusses the benefits of niche marketing of occupational medicine, weight control programs, wellness programs and nutritional supplements, as well as "guerrilla" marketing strategies and using the Internet as a marketing tool.
Four Ways To Build Patient Volume
This feature story discusses medical marketing strategies that can help physicians retain current patients and attract new ones.
Market-Based Theory for HMOs
This column argues that risk bifurcation, polycentrism, and consumer sovereignty are three factors that drive a market-oriented solution to the social inefficiencies inherent in traditional managed care.
Steps Required for a Practice Repurchase
This article discusses the on-going turmoil in the health care market in terms of mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings. It focuses on the issues physicians should consider when deciding whether to repurchase their practice from entities that have lost money on their acquisitions.
Clinical Trial Resources Available for Physicians
This editorial discusses the benefits of doing drug trials, as well as the difficulties in doing so, and lists several sources for getting more information about them.
Single- or Multispecialty? Many Factors Drive the Structure of a Group
This article discusses factors involved in determining the types of group organizations that are being formed in response to managed care.
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