title: Operation start-up.
abstract: When Mount Carmel Health System sized up the Medicare market in Columbus, Ohio, executives liked what they saw: Seniors trusted them more than insurers to run a managed care plan. Only six months later, their provider-sponsored plan opened for business under a HCFA pilot project. Here's how Mount Carmel pulled it off.
authors.affiliation: Mount Carmel Health Plan, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Calvaruso
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002204:Capitation Fee; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D015271:Insurance Pools; D017054:Insurance, Medigap; D006278:Medicare / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009820:Ohio; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010816:Physician Incentive Plans; D010865:Pilot Projects; D014481:United States