Cost Control and Physicians

An Examination of Attitudes and Behavioral Expectations

Bibliographic Data

ID9099369
AuthorsNEAL R PRUCHANSKY (Indiana State University, corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume21
Issue5
Pages508-518
Publication date1983-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Care (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948
PublisherOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00005650-198305000-00004
PMID6843203
OpenAlexW2049281505
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

In 1977, a Committee of the Maine Legislature considered a proposal to include physicians' offices in the Certificate of Need (CON) process. Ultimately, the Committee accepted the Maine Medical Association position and rejected the proposal. A survey was conducted of physicians of Cumberland County, Maine, to determine their attitudes toward the proposal. Questionnaires were sent out concurrently with the legislative debate; 163 were completed (55 per cent). Results indicated that there was not unanimous support of the Maine Medical Association position. Twenty-three per cent of the respondents favored the proposal. The older, more conservative physicians tended to be against the proposal. Behavioral expectations were measured by asking physicians what they would do if the CON proposal was implemented. Nine per cent of the physicians indicated that they would alter their practice in a manner that would have an adverse effect on the availability of care if the CON proposal was implemented. Cross-tabulations revealed that most of those who would alter their practices were close to retirement age. Thus, we can conclude that passage of the proposal would not have had an especially adverse effect upon the availability of care in Maine

Business · Certificate · Control (management) · Family medicine · Legislature · Management · Political science · Position (finance) · Finance · Healthcare Policy and Management · Law · Medicine · Psychology

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