Enclosed for your consideration is a copy of her report on this matter. As a physician concerned with the direction managed care is taking, consider this MUST reading material. The AMA has hopes that revisions to the anti-trust policies will give physicians the relief they need.
Informed opinion is to the contrary.
Dr. Finley is continuously monitoring changes to FTC policies that could affect physicians, and as a result supplemental updates of her report will be made as necessary. Physicians in Providers Networks Need a Union to Effectively Deal with Managed Care Organizations. This is where patients come from these days. In order to protect doctors' rights to practice what they know to be the best medicine, and often to protect their rights to reasonable incomes, doctors need to organize as a labor union. Reasons are many.