In the last month, the Twin Cities’ medical market heard the news that two of the area’s larger private, multispecialty groups were in merger discussions with Integrated Delivery Systems (IDS): Aspen Medical Group (160 providers) with Allina and Columbia Park Medical Group (87 physicians) with Fairview Health Services. A September 7, 2007, Minneapolis Star Tribune article stated that "other clinic groups are said to be looking for larger partners.”
Wipfli’s Health Care group is concurrently conducting integration projects in 10 states. The August 2007 release from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) reported “the proportion of physicians in solo and two-physician practices decreased significantly from 40.7% to 32.5% between 1996-97 and 2004-05.”
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