title: The HMOs: new models for practice.
abstract: New areas of practice are open to innovative social workers in an existing and expanding comprehensive health care delivery system--the health maintenance organization (HMO). In this article, four health plan models are described that document the experience of social workers in established HMOs. These illustrations demonstrate the necessity and opportunity for expanded social work roles in humanizing and corrdinating patient services in complex multidisciplinary health care delivery systems.
mesh_terms: D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations; D006801:Humans; D012380:Role; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education; D014481:United States