What Is the Corporate Practice of Medicine and Fee-Splitting?

"The business of providing medical care is in the midst of dramatic change. To keep pace with evolving economics and reimbursement practices, the small, or even individual, physician practice which stood as the standard arrangement for so long is giving way to larger, more corporate models. Increasingly, healthcare practices, management companies and facilities seek to achieve the economies of scale and professionalization of procedures necessary as medicine becomes more expensive, complex and scrutinized. This book attempts to set forth in a concise way the nature of these two restrictions, the historical context in which they arose, and what they mean for the ownership and day-to-day operation of healthcare practices, management companies and facilities"--