The Corporate Transformation of Medical Specialty Care: The Exemplary Case of Neonatology

American Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics, Winter 2008

13 Pages Posted: 1 Jan 2011

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Eleanor D. Kinney

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Date Written: December 31, 2008

Abstract

Increasingly, more entrepreneurial physician specialists are organizing their practices in for-profit corporations and employing other physicians. Focusing on the example of neonatology, this article describes the prevailing business model of these for-profit medical specialty groups as controlling their employed physicians through restrictive employment contract provisions. This article examines how the prevailing business model of for-profit medical specialty groups for the employment of physicians enables them to eliminate competition for specific specialty services to the detriment of patients and consumers.

Keywords: For-profit health care, medical practice

Suggested Citation

Kinney, Eleanor D., The Corporate Transformation of Medical Specialty Care: The Exemplary Case of Neonatology (December 31, 2008). American Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics, Winter 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1733196

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