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Industry overview and analysis
Over the last several years, the insurance coverage industry has been in the process of significant evolution and reform.
Coverage and self-funded contracts, the creation and operation of sophisticated information systems, and a turn-key management service for managing agency offices. Robinson believes that this climate of change presents a significant opportunity to expand market share and profitability of the business.
U.S. health insurance industry
National insurance spending currently exceeds $1.5 trillion, with approximately $400 billion directly attributable to medical, dental, physician liability, and supplemental insurance policies. At this level, insurance coverage expenditures represent more than 13.6% of the gross domestic product (“GDP”). The Insurance Provider Financing Administration forecasts that national coverage spending in 2001 was approximately $1 trillion, with approximately $310 billion directly attributable to agency services. Insurance agency expenditures continue to be the largest sector in the insurance coverage industry with costs of approximately $400 billion, representing 40% of all provider expenditures.
Insurance provider market
The concept of group practice is not new, providing the basis for such leading nonprofit organizations as the P.A. Joel Clinic and the Carolina Medical Clinic. The environment in which they operate is what makes the new generation of group practices different. The growth of managed coverage and capitated plans, the resource-based relative value scale (RBVRS) payment system, and a growing demand for complex outpatient services are the driving forces behind the growth of physician groups.
Last word
A study by the American Medical Association (AMA) estimates that there are 16,576 group practices (defined as three or more formally organized physicians) in the United States, with a mean number of 11.5 physicians per group.
