- Title
- Physician participation in alternative health plans.
- First Author
- Rosenbach, Margo L
- Date of Pub
- 1988 Summer
- Pages
- 63-79
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 4
- Other Authors
- Harrow, Brooke S; Hurdle, Sylvia
- Abstract
- In this article, physician participation in alternative health plans is examined, using cross-sectional data from the Physicians' Practice Costs and Income Survey, 1983-85. Overall, about one-third of physicians participated in one or more plans, ranging from 18 percent of general practitioners to 46 percent of medical subspecialists. Only 19 percent, however, received income from prepaid sources, averaging $5,275 per physician. Reasons for joining or not joining are also examined. Participants joined most often to maintain or increase workload, while nonparticipants most often declined to join because they would be giving up independence.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Professional Practice : Professional Practice Location : Adult : Aged : Data Collection : Female : Health Maintenance Organizations/manpower : Human : Income : Independent Practice Associations/manpower : Insurance, Health/manpower : Male : Middle Age : Physicians/supply & distribution : Preferred Provider Organizations/manpower : Private Practice/manpower : Specialties, Medical : Statistics : Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB89-100663
