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- Title
Financial Profit in Medicine: A Position Paper From the American College of Physicians.
- Authors
Crowley, Ryan; Atiq, Omar; Hilden, David; Beachy, Micah; Brislen, Heather; Curry, William; Dhingra, Menaka; Engel, Lee; Henry, Tracey L.; Hollon, Matthew; Mathew, Suja; Shoushtari, Christiana; Southworth, Molly; Tan, Michael; Health and Public Policy Committee of the American College of Physicians*
- Abstract
The steady growth of corporate interest and influence in the health care sector over the past few decades has created a more business-oriented health care system in the United States, helping to spur for-profit and private equity investment. Proponents say that this trend makes the health care system more efficient, encourages innovation, and provides financial stability to ensure access and improve care. Critics counter that such moves favor profit over care and erode the patient-physician relationship. American College of Physicians (ACP) underscores that physicians are permitted to earn a reasonable income as long as they are fulfilling their fiduciary responsibility to provide high-quality, appropriate care within the guardrails of medical professionalism and ethics. In this position paper, ACP considers the effect of mergers, integration, private equity investment, nonprofit hospital requirements, and conversions from nonprofit to for-profit status on patients, physicians, and the health care system.
- Subjects
PHYSICIAN-patient relations; PHYSICIANS; FINANCIAL security; MEDICAL ethics; CORPORATE growth; PROPRIETARY health facilities
- Publication
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2021, Vol 174, Issue 10, p1447
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.7326/M21-1178