Doing the Smart Thing and the Right Thing

Medical practice executives play a vital role in running a successful practice within a large healthcare system.   These executives could be faced with several difficult decisions imposed by the healthcare system regarding alignment with a physician. The focus of this paper is to examine a collaborative approach to decision making and due diligence that allows for optimal outcomes, not just from the perspective of the physician group, but also from that of hospital executives. This paper also identifies potential complexities in evaluating the hospital-physician relationship.   The research methodology used in this paper will include literature from the American Trauma Society (ATS), the American Medical Association (AMA), the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Healthbeatblog.com, and the American College of Physicians.