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How Do Hmos Achieve Savings? The Effectiveness Of One Organization's Strategies., Ann B. Flood, Allen M. Fremont, K Jin, David M. Bott May 1998

How Do Hmos Achieve Savings? The Effectiveness Of One Organization's Strategies., Ann B. Flood, Allen M. Fremont, K Jin, David M. Bott

Dartmouth Scholarship

To examine how a group practice used organizational strategies rather than provider-level incentives to achieve savings for health maintenance organization (HMO) compared to fee-for-service (FFS) patients. A large group practice with a group model HMO also treating FFS patients. Data sources were all patient encounter records, demographic files, and clinic records covering 3.5 years (1986-1989). The clinic's procedures to record services and charges were identical for FFS and HMO patients. All FFS and HMO patients under age 65 who received any outpatient services during approximately 100,000 episodes of the seven study illnesses were eligible.


Information About Primary Care Physicians Considered Most Useful By Managed Health Care Consumers, Janet Marie Webb Jan 1997

Information About Primary Care Physicians Considered Most Useful By Managed Health Care Consumers, Janet Marie Webb

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


A Comparison Of The Levels Of Patient Staffing Ratios And Staffing Mix To The Number Of Patient Falls In An Acute Care Setting, Candice Marie Peters Jan 1997

A Comparison Of The Levels Of Patient Staffing Ratios And Staffing Mix To The Number Of Patient Falls In An Acute Care Setting, Candice Marie Peters

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.