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IPA-Model HMO

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IPA-Model HMO,
a health maintenance organization (HMO) that contracts with an independent practice association (IPA) for physician services. The IPA processes and adjudicates claims. The HMO provides enrollees and hospital contracts.


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Simply put, few administrators considered career development an integral part of their "corporate missions," whether the mission was clinical effectiveness for a group- or staff-model HMO or quality care for an IPA-model HMO.
John Deere Health Care operates an IPA-model HMO enrolling 300,000 people and three primary care clinics, covering an estimated 17,000 lives (mainly John Deere employees and their dependents).
IPA-model HMOs usually select and pay participating physicians.
 
 
 
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