Hospital-Physician Integration Models

Many hospital systems, over the last several years, have tended to avoid the large scale employment of physicians or the acquisition of practices. This history resulted from many of the financial problems hospitals encountered from acquisitions and expansion in the 1990s. During that period, many systems literally bankrupted themselves due to practice acquisition and employment costs. Hospitals, for many reasons, including the need to assure coverage and the need to provide a wide range of services, are again acquiring practices and employing physicians.

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