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Managed Care Woes:

May 1998
Issue Brief No. 13
 
 

Do HMOs Make a Difference?

Winter 1999/2000
Inquiry
 
 

Do HMOs Make a Difference?

Winter 1999/2000
Inquiry
 
 

Do HMOs Make a Difference?

Winter 1999/2000
Inquiry
 
 

Do HMOs Make a Difference?

Winter 1999/2000
Inquiry
 
 

Do HMOs Make a Difference?

Winter 1999/2000
Inquiry
 
 

Pressures on the Health Care Safety Net:

April 1999
Health Services Research
 
 

Managed Care Backlash:

October 1999
Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law
 
 

Monitoring Market Change: Findings from the Community Tracking Study:

April 2000
Health Services Research
 
 

Monitoring Market Change: Findings from the Community Tracking Study:

April 2000
Health Services Research
 
 

Monitoring Market Change: Findings from the Community Tracking Study:

April 2000
Health Services Research
 
     
 
 

Do HMOs Make a Difference?

Comparing Access, Service Use and Satisfaction Between Consumers in HMOs and Non-HMOs
 
     

Do HMOs Make a Difference?

Summary and Implications

Winter 1999/2000
Inquiry, vol.36, no.4 (Winter 1999/2000): 419-425
Peter Kemper, James D. Reschovsky, Ha T. Tu

Abstract:

he findings of this study of the effects of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) have implications for consumers’ choice between HMOs and other types of insurance: consumers face a trade-off that flows in part from the design of HMOs. HMO enrollees get more primary and preventive care and face lower out-of-pocket costs, but they get less specialist care, experience more provider access and organizational barriers to care, and report less satisfaction, lower ratings of care, and less trust in their physicians. Policymakers should recognize that this trade-off will be attractive to some people but not to others.

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