New wave equity
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Physicians who are organizing to maintain control of health care delivery are discovering that there is plenty of capital available from investors seeking to capture profits close to the earning source. Physician groups can be heartened by the fact that the American Medical Assn has established a program to bring together investors and physicians seeking capital. Venture capital groups seeking for-profit investments are rushing to the health care industry to support those groups of doctors that are banding together for survival purposes.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1995
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Using physician practice cost functions in payment policy: the problem of endogeneity bias
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The establishment of physician payment policy can be aided by empirical estimates of marginal practice costs and scale economies. The bias which may be derived from these estimates is analyzed as compared to the traditional method of treating exogenously physician labor input. Data were gathered from 207 general surgeons of the Physician Payment Review Commission's 1988 National Survey of Physicians. Results indicate that marginal cost estimates which disregard the endogeneity of physician labor are biased downward.
Publication Name: Inquiry
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0046-9580
Year: 1996
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The malpractice premium costs of obstetrics
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A study investigated the cost of malpractive premiums in 1992 for the practice of obstetrics by family physicians and obstetricians. For that year, obstetricians paid malpractice premiums of $44,000 while family practitioners paid $16,000. The difference of the two amounts indicate that the additional increase in malpractice premiums costs comprised about 70% of the premium payable by physicians if they had not provided obstetric services.
Publication Name: Inquiry
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0046-9580
Year: 1997
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