Background:
Areader of AJO recently sent us a letter describing a current practice pattern: He is a fellowship-trained practitioner in a town of less than 20,000 who admits to the only hospital in a county serving a population of more than 50,000. A large orthopedic group from a neighboring county has established a satellite clinic in his town, limiting its practice to insured and work-related cases, providing no local call coverage, and performing surgical cases (well within the scope of expertise of the local practitioner) at the regional university hospital, out of the community setting. Click here for the article

Article Link: Satellite Clinics– “Cherry Picking” in a Community Orthopedic Practice (Adobe Pdf)

Author: Peter D. McCann, MD

Copyright: © 2006 Peter D. McCann, MD