PHYSICIAN PRACTICE
Emerging
Ownership Models
for Physician Practices
WILL THE TREND AWAY FROM SOLO PRACTICES CONTINUE? HOW WILL STILL-COSTLY
ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS AFFECT MEDICAL PRACTICE OWNERSHIP? AND WILL
ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS (ACOs) MAKE IT EASIER OR HARDER TO PRACTICE
INDEPENDENT MEDICINE? EXPERTS WEIGH IN.
T
HE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE estimates
that the number of doctors who own some part of a
medical practice has dropped by 2% per year for the
past quarter of a century. As of now, according to the
American Medical Association, anywhere from 30% to 60%
of practices are privately owned. And, Victoria Stagg Elliott of
American Medical News writes, those practices are becoming
increasingly less pro���table.
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So what about the other 40% to 70% of physicians? Are they
all on the payroll of a big health care corporation? And will the
trend reverse itself?
Mass Care
Akram Boutros, M.D., FACHE, founder and President of
BusinessFirst Healthcare Solutions, answers the question
regarding trend reversal with ���nality.
