An unhealthy trend
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, November 14, 2007
The future of physician services could be heading for a path of higher spending and declining access to care for lower-income people, according to an article by Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) researchers in the November/December Health Affairs.
Researchers attribute these changes to a number of factors, including physicians moving into larger practices and loosening affiliations with general hospitals; providing more ancillary services; investing in enterprises that compete with hospitals for outpatients, and a payment system that has not evolved to support changes in practice.
To read more about this trend visit www.hschange.org.
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