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Hospitals look for ways to align with MDs

Hospitalist Leadership Connection, June 27, 2007

Physicians and hospital administrators historically have clashed over a variety of factors, often to the detriment of patient care and organizational success, according to the June cover story of HealthLeaders Magazine.

However, that dynamic may be changing with the clinical integration model of healthcare, under which hospitals and physicians are now collaborating.

From physician employment to joint ventures, to gainsharing projects and the creation of centers of excellence, hospitals are trying harder to align physicians' and administrators' incentives to enable their facilities to compete and thrive in a rapidly shifting healthcare marketplace, the article states.

Edward G. Murphy, MD, the CEO of Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA, is quoted in the article as saying, "If everyone's on a fee-for-service treadmill, ratcheting back their payment per unit while costs are escalating, the system will fractionalize even more because docs need to pull services out of the hospital to make ends meet."

To read the complete article or to subscribe to HealthLeaders, go to www.healthleadersmedia.com/viewfeature/90336.html.

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