MANAGED CARE AND PROCESSES TO INTEGRATE PHYSICIANS HOSPITALS/

This article describes the extent to which hospitals use different int egrative processes to assimilate physicians and assesses the extent to which their use is associated with managed care penetration ann hospi tal characteristics. Results from a national survey of 1,495 community hospitals indicate that these integrative processes are quite prevale nt, The use of integrative processes tends to be more prevalent in hos pitals that are large, urban, involved in teaching, and members of hos pital systems. Use of particular integrative processes also appears to be associated with different thresholds of managed care penetration.