1. Medical practices are often structured depending on a variety of factors—finances, availability, location and space, etc. Sowers, Newman, and Langdon (2013) contend that there are a variety of medical practice structures, including, but not limited to: (1) solo practice, (2) group practice, and (3) multispecialty group practice.

· Explore the advantages and disadvantages of these types of medical practices and

· Assess how, if at all, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will impact each type of practice.

Discuss and and review the following:

1. of physician-hospital alignment models
2. A case study of comanagement
3. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research