Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction--Taking Leadership to Restructure Health Care Delivery

PART I--Creating the Physician Infrastructure
1.  Building Successful Physician Equity Alliances and Organizations
2.  System Building Blocks to Manage Capitation
3.  Strategies for Communicating with Physicians in the Era of Health Care Restructuring
4.  The Five Stages of Managed Care and Physician Organizations
5.  Using Advance Physician Management Structure to Ensure Clinical Effectiveness

PART II--The Merger and Expansion Process
6.  Expansion Process in Physician Organizations
7.  Structuring a Physician Compensation Plan that Rewards Performance in the Managed Care Environment
8.  Capital and Equity Issues in Physician Organizations and Practice Management Industry
9.  Legal Issues in Organizing and Expanding Physician Organizations

PART III--Advanced Information Systems Issues
10. Selecting Information Systems for Managing MSOs and Large-Scale, Integrated Ambulatory Networks
11. Managing the Planning and Start-Up Operations for Advanced Practice Management Information Systems
12. Applying Outcomes Research to Increase Quality

PART IV--Managing Managed Care and Capitation
13. Managed Care Contracting and Reimbursement for Physician Organizations in a Capitated and Risk Sharing Environment
14. Legal Issues Associated with Managed Care Contracting
15. Critical Issues in Negotiating Capitated Contracts

PART V--Taking Leadership
16. Developing and Operating Physician-Driven HMOs
17. Organizing and Managing Specialty Networks for Capitation
18. Multispecialty Physician Organizations: The New Force in Medicine
19. Creating the Future Through Today's Vision and Actions

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