Integrating Academic and Private Practices

Publication date: Available online 9 April 2018
Source:Anesthesiology Clinics
Author(s): Aviva Regev, Aman Mahajan

Teaser

As health care reform shifts toward value over volume, academic medical centers, known for highly specialized, high-cost care, will suffer from erosion of their traditional funding sources. Academic medical centers have undertaken mergers and partnerships with community medical centers, to maintain a more diversified, cost-effective, and competitive presence in their markets. These consolidations have seen varying results. Cultural factors are frequently cited as a cause of dysfunction and disintegration. Anesthesiology groups integrating academic and private practice physicians are likely to face many of the same challenges. Appropriate attention to culture and other key issues may help realize numerous benefits.


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