Barbara Bridgman Perkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1732093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Bridgman Perkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara Bridgman |
| FAMILY NAME | Perkins |
| SIGNATURE | PERKINS B B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barbara Bridgman Perkins works as an independent scholar. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Capital Markets and Medical Care: How Wall Street Invented Physician Management Companies in the 1990s
Investment banks collaborated with health care entrepreneurs and managers in the 1990s to add a costly layer of investor-owned corporations to the US medical delivery system. In capitalizing and consolidating physician practices, publicly traded Physician Practice Management Companies (PPMCs) incorporated elements of the broader capitalist economy. Companies such as PhyCor, MedPartners, and FPA Medical Management turned to the equity and debt mar…
How U.S. Health Policy Embraced Markets and Helped Wall Street Gentrify Medicine
This article examines the financial industry’s critical role in retargeting U.S. health policy goals of improving peoples’ health in the 1960s to those of expanding institutional wealth in the 1970s. Government collaborated with finance to support not-for-profit hospitals’ use of debt to build services that augmented capital and operated like for-profit businesses. Certificate of Need, hospital rate review, and national health planning programs c…
Designing High-Cost Medicine Hospital Surveys, Health Planning, and the Paradox of Progressive Reform
Inspired by social medicine, some progressive US health reforms have paradoxically reinforced a business model of high-cost medical delivery that does not match social needs. In analyzing the financial status of their areas’ hospitals, for example, city-wide hospital surveys of the 1910s through 1930s sought to direct capital investments and, in so doing, control competition and markets. The 2 national health planning programs that ran from the m…
Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure
Economic organization of medicine and the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care
Recent strategies in managed care and managed competition illustrate how health care reforms may reproduce the patterns of economic organization of their times. Such a reform approach is not a new development in the United States. The work of the 1927-1932 Committee on the Costs of Medical Care exemplifies an earlier effort that applied forms of economic organization to medical care. The committee tried to restructure medicine along lines consist…
Shaping Institution-Based Specialism: Early Twentieth-Century Economic Organization of Medicine
This paper focuses on structural development of institution-based medical specialism in the USA in the first third of the twentieth century. It examines organizational ideas of key reformers and specialty leaders and it examines corresponding characteristics of the institutions they built. The structural characteristics which they incorporated into medical care embodied forms of economic organization of the time. Leaders (variously) explained the…
Shaping Institution-Based Specialism: Early Twentieth-Century Economic Organization of Medicine
This paper focuses on structural development of institution-based medical specialism in the USA in the first third of the twentieth century. It examines organizational ideas of key reformers and specialty leaders and it examines corresponding characteristics of the institutions they built. The structural characteristics which they incorporated into medical care embodied forms of economic organization of the time. Leaders (variously) explained the…
Economic organization of medicine and the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care
Recent strategies in managed care and managed competition illustrate how health care reforms may reproduce the patterns of economic organization of their times. Such a reform approach is not a new development in the United States. The work of the 1927-1932 Committee on the Costs of Medical Care exemplifies an earlier effort that applied forms of economic organization to medical care. The committee tried to restructure medicine along lines consist…
How U.S. Health Policy Embraced Markets and Helped Wall Street Gentrify Medicine
This article examines the financial industry’s critical role in retargeting U.S. health policy goals of improving peoples’ health in the 1960s to those of expanding institutional wealth in the 1970s. Government collaborated with finance to support not-for-profit hospitals’ use of debt to build services that augmented capital and operated like for-profit businesses. Certificate of Need, hospital rate review, and national health planning programs c…
Shaping Institution-Based Specialism: Early Twentieth-Century Economic Organization of Medicine
This paper focuses on structural development of institution-based medical specialism in the USA in the first third of the twentieth century. It examines organizational ideas of key reformers and specialty leaders and it examines corresponding characteristics of the institutions they built. The structural characteristics which they incorporated into medical care embodied forms of economic organization of the time. Leaders (variously) explained the…
Economic organization of medicine and the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care
Recent strategies in managed care and managed competition illustrate how health care reforms may reproduce the patterns of economic organization of their times. Such a reform approach is not a new development in the United States. The work of the 1927-1932 Committee on the Costs of Medical Care exemplifies an earlier effort that applied forms of economic organization to medical care. The committee tried to restructure medicine along lines consist…
Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure
Designing High-Cost Medicine Hospital Surveys, Health Planning, and the Paradox of Progressive Reform
Inspired by social medicine, some progressive US health reforms have paradoxically reinforced a business model of high-cost medical delivery that does not match social needs. In analyzing the financial status of their areas’ hospitals, for example, city-wide hospital surveys of the 1910s through 1930s sought to direct capital investments and, in so doing, control competition and markets. The 2 national health planning programs that ran from the m…
How U.S. Health Policy Embraced Markets and Helped Wall Street Gentrify Medicine
This article examines the financial industry’s critical role in retargeting U.S. health policy goals of improving peoples’ health in the 1960s to those of expanding institutional wealth in the 1970s. Government collaborated with finance to support not-for-profit hospitals’ use of debt to build services that augmented capital and operated like for-profit businesses. Certificate of Need, hospital rate review, and national health planning programs c…
Capital Markets and Medical Care: How Wall Street Invented Physician Management Companies in the 1990s
Investment banks collaborated with health care entrepreneurs and managers in the 1990s to add a costly layer of investor-owned corporations to the US medical delivery system. In capitalizing and consolidating physician practices, publicly traded Physician Practice Management Companies (PPMCs) incorporated elements of the broader capitalist economy. Companies such as PhyCor, MedPartners, and FPA Medical Management turned to the equity and debt mar…
Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Health Policy (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Family medicine (3 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (3 works) · Medical care (3 works)