To experts in medical economics, the battle for patients indicates more than a redivision of the money pot.

While all the institutions involved said the pay their administrators received was reasonable, interviews with experts in medical economics showed a broad debate over salary levels.

Finally, that red line on the new growth chart marks a pioneering concept in medical economics.

But self-referral in imaging is neither good patient care nor good medical economics.

He also analyzes medical economics by checking the correlation between available medical resources and good health.

THE new medical economics is rewriting the book on hospital management - and managers.

Overt price fixing is rare among physicians, said an expert on medical economics who asked not to be identified.

And yet, with all due respect for medical economics, that can't be the only explanation.

During this period he was the author of a number of articles on medical economics.

But with the growth of mega-institutions, and medical economics having grown ever more complex and unforgiving, such glue is in increasingly short supply.