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Results of a New Survey
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Since domestic economic conditions began to deteriorate in September 2008, the number of doctors seeking financial support from hospitals has increased, according to a new report from the American Hospital Association.
Study Results
- Overall: 70%
- Physicians Seeking Increased Pay for On-Call or other Services Provided to Hospital: 79%
- Physicians Seeking Hospital Employment: 74%
- Physicians Seeking to Sell Their Practice: 36%
- Physicians Seeking to Partner on Equipment Purchases: 26%
- Other: 13%
Source: American Hospital Association. The Economic Crisis: Ongoing Monitoring of Impact on Hospitals: Results from an AHA Rapid Response Survey, August/September 2009. www.aha.org
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I just don’t see the above scenario happening much longer. Why?
According to MedPAC, Medicare margins have fallen from a negative-6 percent to an estimated negative-7.2 percent; a historic low. This follows seven years of Medicare falling beneath break-even levels.
http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/medpac-reveals-negative-hospital-medicare-margins-while-aha-criticizes-buy-proposal
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Hospitals and their Physician Employees
A recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine included a concise exploration
by Robert Kocher and Nikhil Sahni of an ongoing trend: increasingly hospitals are employing physicians.
http://healthpolicyandreform.nejm.org/?p=14045&query=TOC
What was once more commonly viewed as two types of enterprises, hospitals and physician groups, is now, more often than not, more correctly viewed as one, hospitals and their employed physicians.
http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/hospitals-are-employing-more-physicians-what-it-means-for-the-rest-of-us/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheIncidentalEconomist+%28The+Incidental+Economist+%28Posts%29%29
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