TY - JOUR
T1 - Establishing an internal medicine practice
T2 - A model to determine economic feasibility
AU - Miller, Kimball A.
AU - Miller, Deborah
AU - Doeksen, Gerald
AU - Shelton, Patti
PY - 1994/4
Y1 - 1994/4
N2 - To make informed career decisions, physicians must acquire a basic knowledge in medical management and health care economics as they evaluate the potential survival and growth of a primary care practice. Health care providers considering a specific community and local leaders and hospital administrators attempting to recruit internal medicine physicians need a method by which they can evaluate a community’s potential for supporting a first or additional primary care physician. To develop this method, we conducted a detailed survey of nonmetropolitan internal medicine generalists and primary care physicians. Data collected from internal medicine physicians and their administrative staff reflected the volume of ambulatory and hospital visits and the direct and indirect costs of the practice over the previous 24 months. Using the fixed and operating cost data, as well as number of patient visits and patient care revenue, we designed a model to project the economic feasibility of establishing an internal medicine practice in a specific community. This model can be used to project the number of adult primary care visits a community can generate for a prospective physician, as well as to estimate the direct and indirect costs, annualized capital costs, gross revenue, and, net income of the practice.
AB - To make informed career decisions, physicians must acquire a basic knowledge in medical management and health care economics as they evaluate the potential survival and growth of a primary care practice. Health care providers considering a specific community and local leaders and hospital administrators attempting to recruit internal medicine physicians need a method by which they can evaluate a community’s potential for supporting a first or additional primary care physician. To develop this method, we conducted a detailed survey of nonmetropolitan internal medicine generalists and primary care physicians. Data collected from internal medicine physicians and their administrative staff reflected the volume of ambulatory and hospital visits and the direct and indirect costs of the practice over the previous 24 months. Using the fixed and operating cost data, as well as number of patient visits and patient care revenue, we designed a model to project the economic feasibility of establishing an internal medicine practice in a specific community. This model can be used to project the number of adult primary care visits a community can generate for a prospective physician, as well as to estimate the direct and indirect costs, annualized capital costs, gross revenue, and, net income of the practice.
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U2 - 10.1097/00007611-199404000-00006
DO - 10.1097/00007611-199404000-00006
M3 - Article
C2 - 8153770
AN - SCOPUS:0028331555
SN - 0038-4348
VL - 87
SP - 454
EP - 460
JO - Southern medical journal
JF - Southern medical journal
IS - 4
ER -