Uncompensated and discounted Medicaid care provided by physician group practices in Wisconsin.

A survey of a sample of physician group practices in Wisconsin was undertaken to determine the amounts of charity care, bad debt, and discounted Medicaid care that were provided in 1988. Overall, the physician group practices in the sample reported dollar amounts of uncompensated care and discounted Medicaid care that averaged approximately 7.6% of their total billings for the year (1.

The changing managerial role of physician executives.

A survey of tasks performed by a sample of 517 physician executives from the AMA Masterfile was carried out to determine the role played by this group of administrators in health care organizations. In contrast to the findings of previous studies, physician executives appear to have responsibilities in general management as well as clinical management and do not focus primarily on physician and medical staff issues. No significant differences were found among respondents from hospitals, government, academic organizations, group practices/HMOs, and physician executives who spend more than 90 percent of their time in administration.