Medical group practices today and tomorrow. Key challenges and opportunities. Roundtable discussion

McManis Associates, a nationally known health care consulting firm, and MGMA sponsored a round table for executives from leading medical groups across the country in May 1997. The purpose of the session was to share thoughts and insights related to creating successful medical groups, with a special focus on how medical groups approach partnerships and what makes those partnerships successes or failures. This article briefly profiles the round table participants and their organizations, summarizes the highlights of the discussion that took place and synthesizes the information into lessons learned that may be applicable to others.