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Physician withdrawals
— a major source of instability in the Medicare+Choice program | | Author(s) | Geraldine Dallek, Andrew Dennington |
| Corporate Author | Commonwealth Fund; Center for Health Services Research and Policy, George Washington University Medical Center |
| Publisher | The Commonwealth Fund, New York, 2002 |
| Pages | 19 pp (Field report) (Program on Medicare's future, ref 495) |
| Source | The Commonwealth Fund, One East 75th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA. www.cmwf.org |
| Keywords | General practitioners ; Staff turnover ; Health services ; Management [care] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | That doctors have withdrawn from Medicare has been one cause of instability in Medicare+Choice programs. This report examines Medicare data on primary care provider turnover rates in the states for which data is available and in seven Medicare+Choice study sites: Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St Paul, New York, Tampa-St Petersburg, and Tucson. It also analyses the turnover rates for primary care physicians, cardiologists and hospitals in Cleveland and St Petersburg. Data from 1999 and 2001 finds turnover ranging from 23% to 60% for plans in St Petersburg, and from 17% to 25% for plans in Cleveland. Two major causes of plan network instability are discussed: payment of providers, and financial problems within networks. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020513223 B |
| Classmark | QT6: WJ7: L: QA: 7T |
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