title: Managing care and the risk for managing quality.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to outline the potential liability of managed care organizations. Specifically, the paper enumerates the various types of liability of health maintenance organizations for the negligent acts of its contracting physicians. The recent cases discussed below demonstrate both the extent to which courts are willing to stretch the liability of HMOs and also the limits that courts place on that liability.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Mulholland
mesh_terms: D003406:Credentialing; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D016365:Liability, Legal / Q000191:economics; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D016749:National Practitioner Data Bank; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012052:Reimbursement, Incentive; D012308:Risk Management; D014481:United States