Healthcare Financial Operations Manual for Independent Practice Associations

by Joe D. Havens, Reed Tinsley, Jim Karling, et al.

Only recently, the physician setting up his own practice was considered an anachronism. And doctors loosely affiliated with an independent practice association (IPA) fared no better. Lacking capital, financial management, and the mechanisms for adequate medical and information system management, many IPAs around the country were coping with financial instability. From the outset, IPAs seemed doomed to obsolescence by the organizational efficiencies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471359270
• ISBN13: 9780471359272
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 252 Pages