A National Survey of the Arrangements Managed-Care Plans Make with Physicians
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A national survey of the arrangements managed-care plans make with physicians.
BACKGROUND Despite the growth of managed care in the United States, there is little information about the arrangements managed-care plans make with physicians. METHODS In 1994 we surveyed by telephone 138 managed-care plans that were selected from 20 metropolitan areas nationwide. Of the 108 plans that responded, 29 were group-model or staff-model health maintenance organizations (HMOs), 50 w...
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عنوان ژورنال: New England Journal of Medicine
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0028-4793,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejm199512213332505