Three types of Medical Practice: Group, Partnership, and Sole Proprietorship
Group Practice
The majority of physician practices are group practice for a variety of reasons. In a group
practice, physicians share patient duties and the physical office space. This is the second most
popular form of practice. It’s considered as three or more physicians, who provide medical
care, jointly using the same facility, personnel and dividing the income as agreed. Typically
there is a greater financial security than with the solo practices. The pay includes salary and
bonus pay. In addition, the hours in a group practice are more flexible because there are other
doctors that are available to cover for each other. However, there are some negative aspects to
a group practice, such as loss of independence, renovating, hiring and firing personnel, relocating, and expanding facilities for consensus requirement. With most issues, there are both positive and negative sides to being a member of a group practice. If you are considering it, you need to be cautious and evaluate the nature of the practice to determine if you would be compatible with the group members.
However, the rewards of being a member of a successful group practice can readily
outweigh its disadvantages. One great advantage of a group medical practice is the group
members’ ability to share the burden of being “on call” to cover patients during non business
hours, such as nights, major holidays. Careful inquiry should be made at the outset of a
physician’s affiliation with a group, however, to determine the group’s particular call-coverage
practices, and the extent to which call-coverage responsibility will fall on the particular
physician. ...
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...(SSI) of a former proprietor can’t be used by a new business owner.
The owner reports business gain or losses on his or her personal income tax return. A sole proprietor is taxed on all assets from the business at appropriate personal tax rates. The corporation income, and acceptable expenses, is reflected on the person’s tax return. All corporation income is taxed to the owner in the year the business acquire it, whether or not the owner take away the money from the business. No disconnect federal income tax return is acquired of the sole proprietor.
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Membership Services (MSD) at Kaiser Permanente used to be a modest department of sixty staff. However, over the past few years the department has doubled in size, creating minor departmental reorganization. In addition the increase of departmental staffing, several challenges became apparent. The changes included primary job function, as well as the introduction of new network system software which slowed down the processes of other departments. These departments included Claims (who pay the bills for service providers outside of the Kaiser Permanente network), and Patient Business Services (who send invoices to members for services received within Kaiser Permanente). Due to the unforeseen challenges created by the system upgrade, it was decided that MSD would process the calls for both of the affected departments. Unfortunately, this created a catastrophic event of MSD receiving numerous phone calls from upset members—who had received bills a year after the service had been provided. The average Monday call volume had risen from 1,800 to 2,600 calls per day. The average handling time for each phone call had risen as well—from an acceptable standard of 5.6 minutes to an unfavorable 7.2 minutes. The department continued to be kept inundated with these types of calls for the two years that these changes have been effect.
A few advantages would be that they are already popular and have a name for themselves, they offer training and support and it would be less of a risk.
Physician practices are increasingly using medical assistants in place of nurses, for a variety of reasons and with significant impact on office efficiency. Medical assistants are trained in both clinical and administrative functions, allowing one staff member to do the work of two. These assistants can help manage patient flow by working the front desk, performing some billing functions, and also providing some clinical care. As you consider adding medical assistants to your practice or optimizing the work of the assistants you already have on staff, you might be wondering: What is the clinical scope of practice of
...spital they are able to provide outstanding patient care at a low or cheaper cost. The students on rotations are also able to cover for shortage of staff thus keeping the patient care uncompromised due to low staffing.
The Crowded Clinic Case Study (Colorado State University - Global, n.d.) discusses the issues of practice management as they apply to access to care. Access to care may be as inconvenient as lengthy patient wait times to issues far more serious that may have a profound effect on the health and well-being of a single patient or an entire cohort.
There has been a shortage of physicians, lack of inpatient beds, problems with ambulatory services, as well as not having proper methods of dealing with patient overflow, all in the past 10 years (Cummings & francescutti, 2006, p.101). The area of concern that have been worse...
This is because the physicians will be operating with the idea that they will be rewarded financially apart from their basic wage at the closing of their laborious work (Udlis & Mancuso, 2015).
rofessionals from different disciplines collaborating to provide care to patients. Effectively coordinated and collaborative inter-professional teams are essential to the care and treatment of patients (Rowlands & Callen, 2013; Doyle, 2008; Ruhstaller, Roe, Thürlimann & Nicoll, 2006; Simpson & Patton, 2012, p. 300). Communication is a process of conferring information between individuals through use of speech, writing or various other means, and is critical to the success of a multidisciplinary team (MDT) (Higgs, McAllister & Sefton, 2012, p. 5; Rowlands & Callen, 2013; Sargeant, Loney & Murphy, 2008). An MDT must use multiple strategies to enhance communication and ensure their success (Doyle, 2008). An effective MDT generates opportunities that benefit healthcare, which is the reason for the recent dominance of inter-professional care in health practice (Simpson & Patton, 2012, p. 300; Rowlands & Callen, 2013). Many barriers prevent effective communication within inter-professional teams. Lack of communication within MDTs presents challenges to their success, leading to numerous consequences, including the failure of the MDT (London Deanery, 2012; Sargeant et al, 2008). Communication between professionals is the key factor underpinning the potential success or failure of inter-professional teams, the outcome of the functioning of MDTs will either benefit or impair care of patients.
Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hull G. H., Jr. (2015). Generalist Practice with Organizations and Communities (6th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.
The number of doctors that present in the United States of America directly affects the communities that these doctors serve and plays a large role in how the country and its citizens approach health care. The United States experienced a physician surplus in the 1980s, and was affected in several ways after this. However, many experts today have said that there is currently a shortage of physicians in the United States, or, at the very least, that there will be a shortage in the near future. The nation-wide statuses of a physician surplus or shortage have many implications, some of which are quite detrimental to society. However, there are certain remedies that can be implemented in order to attempt to rectify the problems, or alleviate some of their symptoms.
The demand of a constantly developing health service has required each professional to become highly specialised within their own field. Despite the focus for all professionals being on the delivery high quality care (Darzi, 2008); no one profession is able to deliver a complete, tailored package. This illustrates the importance of using inter-professional collaboration in delivering health care. Patient centric care is further highlighted in policies, emphasising the concept that treating the illness alone whilst ignoring sociological and psychological requirements on an individual is no longer acceptable. Kenny (2002) states that at the core of healthcare is an agreement amongst all the health professionals enabling them to evolve as the patient health requirements become more challenging but there are hurdles for these coalitions to be effective: for example the variation in culture of health divisions and hierarchy of roles. Here Hall (2005) illustrates this point by stating that physicians ignore the mundane problems of patients, and if they feel undervalued they do not fully participate with a multidisciplinary team.
In the United States, depending upon the state in which they work, nurse practitioners may or may not be required to practice under the supervision of a physician, frequently referred to as a “collaborative practice agreement”. However, in consideration of the shortage of primary care/internal medicine physicians, many states are eliminating or lessening the restrictive authority which allows and nurse practitioners the ability to function more autonomously (AANP 2015).
There are many different types of business structures, but if you own and operate a business that it is a sole
Practitioners should have focused training in group work to be more proficient group workers. Group workers should also stay current on all new treatments and the like, by taking continuing education courses, activities, etc. just like other types of practitioners.... ... middle of paper ...
In reflection on my learning experience in the group class, I have gained clarity on what sorts of competencies of facilitating group therapy, as well as in what areas social workers and students tend to feel most strong in my practice. Regarding my specific gains in competencies, I feel that I learned the most and was most likely to gain specific group facilitating competencies at the weekly class. Learning in group class is taught me the tools to use to work with groups therapy, communities and also with individuals through the process of changes. In this past three months I think a lot of opportunities have been created to shadowing with (beside and behind) and being a part of group members to learn. In addition, this class has taught me about the skills and how effectively help