Hospital-physician integration models: an alternative to joint ventures.

Establishing principles for hospital-physician joint ventures.

A typical joint venture is structured as a limited liability company (LLC). Under this nontaxable structure, income passes directly through to the owners, which benefits both physicians and hospitals. For taxable owners, such as physicians, the income is not subject to “double taxation” (where earnings are taxable both to the corporation and to the individual investor). And for a nonprofit enti...

Physician/hospital joint ventures in the wake of St. David's: reference material.

Hospital Mergers and Economic Efficiency

Consolidation via merger both from hospital-to-hospital mergers and from hospital acquisitions of physician groups is changing the competitive landscape of the provision of health care delivery in the United States. This Article undertakes a legal and economic examination of a recent Ninth Circuit case examining the hospital acquisition of a physician group. This Article explores the Saint Alph...

Corporate Venture Capitalists and Independent Venture Capitalists: What Do They Know, Who Do They Know, and Should Entrepreneurs Care?

INTRODUCTION LITERATURE REVIEW AND HYPOTHESIS DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESES DATA AND METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONTACT REFERENCES TABLE 1 TABLE 2

The physician as entrepreneur: state and federal restrictions on physician joint ventures.