HMO

The HMOs tell you which doctor you can see, how much you can pay, and what you can get treated.

The council thinks Slough has 3, 500 HMOs, with at least 17, 500 mostly immigrant tenants, and is trying to identify them all.

By extension, if enrollment in HMOs continues to decline, pay for performance might be expected to become less viable.

We develop a framework for analyzing bargaining relationships between hospitals and HMOs under selective contracting.

Unlike HMOs, ACOs are not going to restrict people's choice of a doctor.

An observation: in 1995, you may have found yourself cursing out HMOs at the office water cooler.

Policy makers are seeking to do what HMOs promised to do (slow the growth of health care costs) without infuriating patients.

More competition, measured by the number of HMOs in the market area, reduces HMO premiums.

Pay for performance has become an established feature of many payment systems of HMOs in the private sector.

Managed care, provided by firms also called health-maintenance organisations, (HMOs), grew rapidly in the 1990s but then retreated.

The markets from which we chose our sample include 91% of the persons enrolled in HMOs.

For the most part, HMOs have eased limits on patient choice and treatments.

HMOs that paid doctors a flat fee in the 1990s faced a backlash as patients bridled at long waits and denied service.

Insurance companies and HMOs increasingly are paying hospitals a set amount for each patient, regardless of how long they stay.