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..., but IP As are growing three times faster than PGPs and are likely to dominate the HMO industry in the near future. The literature indicates that a small proportion of an IPA physician's practice is capitated, but such practices often are as much as one-third capitated. And while the literature indicates...

...Lawrence P. Casalino This article examines Federal Trade Commission (FTC) policy—in particular, the agency's controversial 1996 statements on clinical integration—toward joint negotiations for nonrisk contracts with health plans by physicians organized into independent practice associations (IPAs...

.... https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/ggr-helms-amendment . Helmore Edward . 2022 . “ 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Forced to Travel from Ohio to Indiana for Abortion .” Guardian , July 3 . https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/03/ohio-indiana-abortion-rape-victim . Ipas . 2013...

... association, therefore recommended that GPs should band together into independent practitioner associations (IPAs) (Auckland UniServices Limited 1992). When the system of contracting commenced in 1993, the initial IPAs were basic organizations and networks, established by GPs under a government...

... there should be.’ Second, the individual practice asso- ciation (IPA) variant of the HMO has not yet proved less costly than FFS health care.8 This finding is troubling because IPAs are growing more rap- idly than other HMO forms. (IPAs accounted for 88 percent of the growth in number of HMO plans...

... Associations (IPAs). IPAs negotiate with insurance companies; credential and inspect member physicians, institu- tions, and services; and disburse payment to physicians. In the Califor- nia P4P initiative, payments are made to IPAs and other large groups as opposed to individual physicians...

... between prepaid group and individual practice association (IPA) model plans.6 As of June 1981,243 HMOs were operational, representing a 3 percent net growth in plan numbers since June 1980.7Enrollment had reached 10.3 million members, up 13 percent from 1980, the largest positive change...

... is an Individual Practice Association with(IPA) an enrollment of 54,000 (April, 1979). Its membership growth in the past three years has been amazing; at the time of its federal qualification (April, Comprecare1976), had only 1700 members. By December of 1978, these two HMOs enrolled...

... practice association (IPA) HMOs-made up largely of physi- cians practicing in small groups or solo, who wished to compete with the larger closed-panel plans (Interstudy 1991; Luft 1981). By the end of the 1980s traditional insurance plans and established HMOs were joined by a stunning array...

... HMO n.a.* 4.59 4.53 IPA-HMO n.a. 4.76 4.56 Svstem-wide ALOS 7.73 7.49 7.23 *Not available. of length-of-stay, is not consistently lower than the fee-for-service sector’s. lo Ac- cording to Luft...

... and those of individual practice associations, or IPAs) submitted to HSAs between 1 January 1975 and 30 June 1978.2 The two surveys This paper was originally presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Public Administration, Detroit, 13 April 1981. The authors wish...

... Description Year Entered AQC Primary Care Physicians Specialist Physicians General Acute Care Hospitals AQC model 1.0: Atrius Health Multispecialty group 2009 461 596 0 Accountable Care Associates a IPA 2009 137 21 0 Mt. Auburn Cambridge IPA IPA with aligned hospital 2009 112...

..., and Individ- ual Practice Associations (IPAs While both provide health care to enrollees, the relationships between the organization and its physicians differ in important ways. PGP physicians receive a salary, and in some cases a share of profits, such that their marginal revenue of treatment...

... of Social Services was aware that the influential state legislator would have a significant impact on passage of its requests. When the leaders of the IPA, the recognized statewide organization for pharmacists, first learned of the existence of Concerned Iowa Pharmacists, they were concerned...

...- cialists, or they may select a physician not in the network and accept a lower level of benefits. The plans marketed are independent practice asso- ciations (IPAs) and open-ended point-of-service managed care networks (POS plans). Individual physicians serve as gatekeepers and provide managed...

...). These organizations—including Health Maintenance Organiza- tions (HMOs), Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs), large medical groups such as Independent Practice Associations (IPAs), Physician-Hos- pital Organizations (PHOs), accreditation organizations such as the National...

... eroding its ability to negotiate as generous volume discounts with the providers. Furthermore, administrative costs could increase substantially (especially for non–Individual Practice Association [IPA] models) because an HMO will have to contract with a greater number of providers and advise them...

... for the medical society IPA-HMO to $45 for the Blues). It also seems false that HMOs attract healthier people. According to a 1980 AMA study of HMOs, the people enrolling in HMOs were found to be slightly sicker than those enrolling in traditional insurers.l7 This is not to say...

... spending and physician payment for drugs in managed care organizations. Alan Hillman, Mark Pauly et al. (1999) compared drug spending and pre- scribing patterns across nine individual practice association (IPA) and net- work-model plans managed by a single corporation. They concluded that physicians...

... Figure 1 Figure Davidson s Can Public Policy Fix Managed Care? 1055 ciency. Since individual MCOs often compete in their markets by offer- ing multiple products (e.g., group model HMO, independent practice association [IPA], and point of service [POS] plans), the characteristics...