Physicians hit by higher operating losses in Group Practices

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Wednesday, Sep 07,2011 | Edition 1.3

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A major reason for the negative operating margin is due to the increased integration of medical groups and health systems where funding from each physician goes to their medical group corpus. Another reason that contributes to operating losses is the difficulty involved in retrieving expenses incurred due to enhancing patient care in the context of volume based reimbursement system in the US. More..

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