Today there are more than 3, 500 DSOs in operation, according to the Dental Group Practice Association.
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Data from the Medical Group Management Association shows that physician productivity in these employed relationships, measured simply by RVUs, declines up to 25% compared with independent practices.
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Simon Lewis, chief executive of the lobby group the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, said the proposed measures were not just a threat to the City of London, but to Europe's competitive position in financial services.
Estimates by hospitals that acquire medical practices and institutions that track these trends such as the Medical Group Management Association show that physician productivity falls under these arrangements, sometimes by more than 25% (more on this below).
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The analysis of physician pay by the Medical Group Management Association indicates a greater shift to lower-cost primary care as employers, insurance companies and government health programs try to provide financial incentives to health professionals who work in outpatient care settings.
"Some clients have expressed concerns about a likely disruption, " says Ganesh Natarajan, chairman of Nasscom, the software industry association group.
The Cairns Group, an association of agriculture-exporting countries in the Americas and Oceania, wants to abolish such safeguard mechanisms entirely.
The 700-doctor Muir Medical Group Independent Practice Association, a partner of John Muir Health physician network in Walnut Creek, Calif.
Mortgage application volume rose 2.9% during the week ending May 9, according to trade group Mortgage Bankers Association's weekly application survey.
As a young man, Mr Leutwiler had gained attention as the energetic secretary of a group called the Association for a Sound Currency.
Marion Williams, director of Edinburgh's campaigning heritage group the Cockburn Association, said the planning committee's decision was one of the worst she had ever seen.
Jean-Hughes Narcisse is the head of a victims' association group.
David Miles, the chairman of the radiotherapy specialist focus group of the Association of X-ray Equipment Manufacturers which formed to highlight the problem, says there has been a "collapse in critical investment".
Jose Emilio Suarez Trashorras, Spaniard, age 30, faces 38, 976 years if convicted of mass murder and attempted mass murder, terrorist damage to trains, collaborating with a terrorist group, illicit association, supplying and transporting explosives, falsifying license plates and vehicle theft.
The trade group International Air Transport Association does its own safety audits on air carriers.
Sponsored by trade group the Consumer Electronics Association, the show was started in 1967 in New York.
Regulators, whose ranks include the industry trade group the National Futures Association, have still missed the big picture.
Mr Morgan said his recovery was helped by a Stroke Association support group.
Air travel in Africa is up 9.8% this year, outpacing global growth of 6.8%, according to the International Air Transport Association trade group.
Founded in 1958, the group evolved from an association to help retired teachers get health insurance into a lobbying juggernaut that now counts 37 million members.
But a separate group called the National Association for Gifted Children says even the Nagty programme is not enough for the very brightest - the top 2%.
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On Wednesday, 1, 300 home builders will call on Capitol Hill as part of a legislative conference organized by their trade group, the National Association of Home Builders.
The group purchasers' industry association opposed the bill, which expired.
Google, Amazon.com, eBay, Facebook and other Internet companies have formed a lobbying group called The Internet Association to tackle regulatory and political issues in Washington, D.
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About three-quarters of them were from the United States, according to the industry group Cruise Lines International Association, which represents 26 cruise lines, including the world's largest, Carnival and Royal Caribbean.
The industry's leading trade group, the National Association of Campus Stores, tested a Web-site hosting service for independent campus stores at five schools for several months and announced a widespread rollout of the program set for spring.
Unlike a few years ago, big retailers are now mostly sticking with the latter group, according to tracking done by the American Family Association, a conservative pro-Christmas group that pays attention to such things.
She helped Timisoara's Business Women's Association, a group of 60 female entrepreneurs, create a new focus.
This makes the organization eight times as large as the second-largest non-profit advocacy group, the National Rifle Association.
The residents' association and independent group at Conservative-run Surrey County Council has succeeded in getting the decision "called in".
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