The 100 Year Shift? Part 3 On Why There Is Less To Physician-Hospital Integration Than Meets The Eye

What's ahead?

The third in a series of provocative essays on the emerging alignment of health insurers and physicians has been posted at Vince Kuraitis' e-CareManagement blog. 

In it, we review the transition of hospitals from "revenue" to risk-bearing "cost" centers and speculate on how physicians are likely to react.  While perceptive Disease Management Care Blog readers may ask about the recent spate of physician practice purchases by hospitals as well as the looming specter of "accountable care organizations," Vince and the DMCB have eight reasons why hospital-physician marriages have a lot more Schwarzenegger and a lot less steadfastness than generally appreciated.

Is the DMCB's prognostications full of hot air?  A flight of fancy?  Wishful thinking?  Read for yourself and decide.  Comments remain always welcome.

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The 100 Year Shift? Introduction and Overview



Coming to an end?

The Disease Management Care Blog is proud to introduce a series of jointly authored postings on the topic of "The 100 Year Shift" that will be hosted by Vince Kuraitis at the e-CareManagement blog.

This series will examine a major shift underway in the hospital-physician-insurer triad.  While hospitals and physicians have been closely affiliated for decades, we suggest that this historically cozy relationship may be coming to an end.  What's more, we brazenly predict that health insurers (yes, insurers) and physicians will find that they have more in common, leading to a significant new alignment between these two entities.

"Hmph!" you say? "No way!" is your reaction?  You think the DMCB has really gone off the deep end this time?  You may be right, but check out the posts and then decide if any of it could be possible.

The first introductory post is here.