Medicare's point-of-service.
Guidelines recently issued by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) explicity allow health maintenance organizations (HMOs) with a Medicare risk contract to sell a point-of-service (POS) benefit to their Medicare members. For an additional charge, these HMO members will now be allowed to go out-of-network for certain medical services.
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Birch and Davis Health Management Corporation, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
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