Can Health Maintenance Organizations Be Successful? An Analysis of 14 Federally Qualified "HMOs"
HRD-78-125
Published: Jun 30, 1978. Publicly Released: Jun 30, 1978.
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Health maintenance organizations (HMO) serve as alternatives to traditional fee-for-service health care delivery systems by providing health care to members based on prepaid rates. The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 authorized a program to help develop new HMO's and expand existing ones by providing financial assistance and requiring certain employers to offer HMO's as an option to employees.