- Title
- Social health maintenance organizations' service use and costs, 1985-89.
- First Author
- Harrington, Charlene
- Date of Pub
- 1991 Spring
- Pages
- 37-52
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 3
- Other Authors
- Newcomer, Robert
- Abstract
- Presented in this article are aggregate utilization and financial data from the four social health maintenance organization (S/HMO) demonstrations that were collected and analyzed as a part of the national evaluation of the S/HMO demonstration project conducted for the Health Care Financing Administration. The S/HMOs, in offering a $6,500 to $12,000 chronic care benefit in addition to the basic HMO benefit package, had higher start up costs and financial losses over the first 5 years than expected, and controlling costs continues to be a challenge to the sites and their sponsors.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Aged : California : Chronic Disease/economics : Comprehensive Health Care/economics : Financial Management/statistics & numerical data : Health Expenditures/statistics & numerical data : Health Maintenance Organizations/economics/utilization : Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data : Human : Income/statistics & numerical data : Medicare/utilization : Minnesota : New York City : Oregon : Pilot Projects : Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB91-201384
