Take Charge of Your Medical Practice . . . Before Someone Else Does It for You: Practical Practice Management for the Managed Care Market: Practical Practice Management for the Managed Care Market

For a physician to succeed in The New World of health care delivery he or she needs to focus on four key areas of medical practice: his pati ents; his office; his business relationship with managed care plans, h ospitals and other physicians; and his marketing plan. Each of these a reas is a pillar of effective practice, the importance of which will n ot be diminished or changed regardless of the direction of future heal th care reform.