Since the early 1980s, MCOs have grown rapidly, with the greatest enrollment of patients occurring not in relatively well-studied group or staff model HMOs, but in newer types of MCOs:
independent practice associations, preferred provider organizations, exclusive provider organizations, and point-of-service plans.
To determine the prevalence of office reminder and scheduling systems and education and counseling services for screening mammography, we conducted a telephone survey of a group of primary care practices affiliated with an
independent practice association (IPA) model HMO and of the mammography centers to which the practices refer their patients.
(EHS), managed by healthcare organisation SynerMed, has agreed to acquire
independent practice association MultiCultural Medical Group, Inc., adding 370 providers, the company said.
Carol Greenlee, vice chair of the ACP's Council of Subspecialty Societies and an endocrinologist in Grand Junction, Colo., also said that she had been using the toolkit with physicians who were in her
independent practice association (IPA).
MemorialCare Health System is a not-for profit, integrated delivery system that includes five top hospitals - Long Beach Memorial, Miller Children's Hospital Long Beach, Community Hospital Long Beach, Orange Coast Memorial, and Saddleback Memorial; three medical groups - MemorialCare Medical Group, Memorial Prompt Care, and Specialty Physicians of Long Beach; an
Independent Practice Association (IPA) Greater Newport Physicians; MemorialCare HealthExpress retail clinics; and numerous outpatient health centers throughout the Southland.
Some of his physician colleagues from the city's largest
independent practice association had themselves been eyeing the purchase possibility, however.
High Desert Medical Group is an
Independent Practice Association (IPA) of 50 primary care and specialty physicians who serve 45,000 patients covered by Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plans.
The fifth HMO, the
Independent Practice Association (IPA), was established in 1984 to compete for patients with other HMOs.
The EDI installation (EZ-CAP's Provider Communications Link, or PCL) allows nurses at the primary care physician's offices in our
Independent Practice Association (IPA) to go directly on-line to make the request.
MemorialCare Health System is a not-for profit, integrated delivery system that includes six top hospitals - Long Beach Memorial, Miller Children's Hospital Long Beach, Community Hospital Long Beach, Orange Coast Memorial in Fountain Valley, and Saddleback Memorial in Laguna Hills and San Clemente; a medical group - MemorialCare Medical Group; an
Independent Practice Association (IPA) - Greater Newport Physicians; MemorialCare HealthExpress retail clinics; ambulatory surgery centers and numerous outpatient health centers throughout the Southland.
Manawatu
Independent Practice Association (MIPA) nurse Jenny Ayling, who established Palmerston North's Youth Health Service, received the innovation award in primary health.
In fact, for large-scale projects, such as the formation of an
independent practice association, it's good to have both.