Factors underlying organizational change in local health care markets, 1982-1995

This article examines the association between characteristics of local heal th cave market areas in 1982 and the penetration of new organizational form s in those markets in 1995. The Novtheast and South exhibit less organizati onal form development than the West. Local markets with higher population s ize and greater density of specialty physicians in 1982 are associated with greater proportions of the markets being covered by a wide variety of orga nizational forms in 1995.