Co-Management Arrangements – Aligning （共同管理安排,调整）.pdfVIP

Co-Management Arrangements –Aligning Physicians and Hospitals This is the first in a series of articles regarding new models and arrangements for emerging healthcare organizations (EHOs) in light of the continuing efforts towards healthcare reform. Future issues will address such topics as Accountable Care Organizations and the Medical Home Model. Alignment, integration, and engagement of physicians is an organization that is either jointly owned or wholly a key strategy for health systems seeking to create high- owned by a physician to provide the daily management performing, high-quality, and high-efficiency services for the inpatient and/or outpatient components organizations. Yet aligning physicians‟ interests with of a medical specialty service line.7 A co-management those of hospitals and health systems has been an arrangement incentivizes physicians for the ongoing struggle, particularly since the shift from small, development, management, and improvement of quality physician/provider-owned, independent private practices and efficiency, as well as for making the service line to captive practices within larger integrated health more competitive in the target market.8 systems, i.e., the corporatization of the practice of The Clinical Co-Management Structure medicine. Successful hospital enterprises have understood that “to effectively respond to the economic Typically, the key components to consider when incentives of reform, a hospital must achieve a deeper developing