{"title":"The role of the physician and the present and emerging health care channel.","authors":"K W Westbrook","doi":"10.1300/j043v12n01_01","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author examines the position of physicians in the health care channel on the basis of Transaction Cost Analysis. Propositions are offered that explain recent vertical integration. Moreover, a conceptual model of the future health care channel is offered for capitated pricing.</p>","PeriodicalId":79671,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital marketing","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/j043v12n01_01","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of hospital marketing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1300/j043v12n01_01","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The author examines the position of physicians in the health care channel on the basis of Transaction Cost Analysis. Propositions are offered that explain recent vertical integration. Moreover, a conceptual model of the future health care channel is offered for capitated pricing.