Survey of alternative health systems for business

There is a new climate of deregulation and increasing competition in the healthcare marketplace. Until recently, methods for moderating the cost of health care have focused on inpatient care to the virtual exclusion of other delivery systems. Thus, ambulatory care has been almost totally ignored. The prominence of business/health coalitions has begun to highlight outpatient providers. Furthermore, medical group practices are beginning to negotiate directly with businesses and industries to provide an agreed upon set of outpatient services. As a part of its ongoing activities and through a grant from the Western Network for Education in Health Administration in Berkeley, California, the Center for Research has initiated a project, New Perspectives for Affordable, Quality Health Care. The research underlying this upcoming Center publication was conducted by Dr. Tynan of the University of Colorado at Denver, School of Public Administration. Dr. Tynan 's survey findings provide an excellent description of the activities of MGMA member groups in alternative arrangements for delivering medical services.