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Med Inc. : how consolidation is shaping tomorrow's healthcare system
- Title
- Med Inc. : how consolidation is shaping tomorrow's healthcare system / Sandy Lutz, Woodrin Grossman, John Bigalke.
- Author
- Lutz, Sandy.
- Publication
- San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | R728.2 .L87 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 212 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Sandy Lutz, a medical business reporter and investment analyst, and Big Six accounting firm partners Woodrin Grossman and John Bigalke provide their insiders' insights into the financial workings of Wall Street's mighty medical corporations - a class the authors refer to as Med Inc. With an in-depth study of the most notable leader, Columbia/HCA Healthcare, plus illustrative examples of several other medical giants, Lutz and her coauthors demonstrate how these Med Inc. companies work at managing capital, information, risk, and government regulation - the four key success factors to achieving operational efficiency and market dominance. They show how the missions and operations of investor-owned companies compare with their noninvestor-owned counterparts, and examine how current technological and market developments will shape the future of health systems."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Medical corporations > United States
- Integrated delivery of health care > United States
- Hospital mergers > United States
- Physician management companies > Mergers > United States
- Managed care plans (Medical care) > United States
- Health Facility Merger > trends
- Delivery of Health Care, Integrated > economics
- Managed Care Programs
- Marketing of Health Services
- Professional Corporations
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Getting Bigger to Get Better -- 2. A Climate for Consolidation -- 3. Tapping the Rich Vein of Physician Practices -- 4. Lessons from the Biggest Consolidator, Columbia/HCA -- 5. Hospital Consolidators of the "Not-for-Profit" Breed -- 6. Managing Managed Care -- 7. The Spreading Power of Consolidation -- 8. Faster, Cheaper, and Smarter -- 9. Investing in Structural Technological Leaps -- 10. Overstepping Old Boundaries in Marketing -- 11. Becoming the Brand That Customers Love -- 12. The Internet: The Consolidator's Best Tool -- 13. No Turning Back.
- ISBN
- 0787940402
- LCCN
- 97040890
- OCLC
- ocm37725563
- SCSB-5097025
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries