Financial Incentives for Physicians in HMOs
- 31 December 1987
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 317 (27), 1743-1748
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198712313172725
Abstract
Do financial incentives used by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to restrain the use of health care resources represent a conflict of interest between physicians' concern about their income and their concern about patients? To explore the contractual obligations of primary care physicians in HMOs, I mailed a survey to all 595 HMOs known to be in operation as of June 1986. In all, 302 of 595 HMOs (51 percent) responded.Keywords
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