title: Let us now revisit prepaid group practice.
abstract: American medicine will soon enter health care reform. The Clinton Administration's Task Force on Health Care Reform is likely to introduce change that relies heavily on managed care, a field now dominated by the health insurance industry. Physicians can manage health care themselves by forming Prepaid Group Practices (PGPs). PGPs combine health insurance functions with physician managed health care. They can negotiate directly with health care purchasers, thereby abrogating the commercial health insurance industry.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kahn
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006125:Group Practice, Prepaid; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States