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PHYSICIAN ISSUES
As healthcare executives act to form integrated healthcare systems that encompass entities such as physician-hospital organizations and medical group practices they often discover that practical guidance on acquiring physician practices is scarce.
To address the need for authoritative guidance on practice acquisition, HFMA's Principles and Practices Board has developed a detailed analysis of physician practices acquisition issues, Issues Analysis 95-1: Acquisition of Physician Practices.
This analysis includes a detailed due diligence checklist developed to assist both healthcare financial managers involved in acquiring physician practices and physician owners interested in selling their practices.
The acquisition of physician practices is a vital step in the creation of integrated healthcare systems. Practice acquisition, however, is a complicated initiative that requires a deliberative process of developing a broad strategy, assessing each physician practice, reviewing legal...