papers

The changing shape of the physician workforce in prepaid group practice

Health Aff W4:60-63.

Permanente Federation, Kaiser Permanente Health Care Program, Oakland, CA, USA

Multiple factors have combined to change the size and specialty composition of the physician workforce in the nation’s largest prepaid group practices over the past two decades. An examination of these changes can shed some light on the past and potential future impact that changes in medical technology are likely to have on the physician workforce of these organizations and the greater physician community.

Comment in Health Aff (Millwood). 2004 Jan-Jun;Suppl Web Exclusives:W4-43-59.

PMID: 15451975