This list may point to the direction of future advocacy efforts. Kerns, C., et al. Managed care organizations and their liability exposures. Healthcare Liability Deskbook, Section 19. Six Industry consolidation is continuing at a brisk pace.
Numbers provided are approximate, based on self-reported data.
In fact, solo practice, rather than physician age, sex, or race, was the strongest predictor of having experienced a denial or termination and of having neither an IPA nor a direct HMO contract. The health care marketplace may not be conducive to promoting charity care if physicians who provide such care are routinely penalized for their altruistic deeds. Managed Care Reporter , p. 250. Expecting opposition from the business and insurance sectors as well as the enforcement community, Campbell has said he won't go forward without the support of the nation's health care workers and the AMA. . . . Even the bill's most avid supporters are not sure where it will go at this point.