Direct pay
Subtitle: a simpler way to practice medicine
By: Divya Srinivasan Sridhar, PhD
Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group; Productivity Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781498701327
Subjects: Medical Practice Management; Practice; Primary Health Care; Economics; Medical Fees; Delivery of Health Care; Medical economics; Trends; Medicine; Personal Financing; Medical policy
Notes: "A Productivity Press book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Theories and literature on direct pay; title: 3. Research objectives; title: 4. Methodology; title: 5. Hypothesis 1: testing the impact of health reform on direct pay; title: 6. Hypothesis 2: electronic medical/health record (EMR/EHR) usage, implementation, and HIT policy perceptions of direct pay practices; title: 7. Hypothesis 3: Organizational culture differences across direct pay practices; title: 8. Interviews with direct pay physicians; title: 9. Final conclusions and policy recommendations.