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Group practice: “Is this what I signed up for?”

Health Care

January 04, 2010
by Davis Fansler and Perry R. Hanson

It seems more often than not hospitals get into the physician business without having first built a clear business plan around such a strategy. This is understandable since they most likely reactively got into it in the first place – a physician or medical group showed up at their doorstep and said they could no longer handle the declining reimbursement and rising costs, so “either buy us, or we’ll take our admissions elsewhere.”


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