The medicare-HMO revolving door - The healthy go in and the sick go out

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 169-175

  Morgan, Robert O ^a,b,d   Virnig, Beth A ^a,b   DeVito, Carolee A ^a,b   Persily, Nancy A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UM/PHT Health Policy Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; MANAGED CARE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FLORIDA; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MEDICARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030871835     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199707173370306     Document Type: Article

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