Economists' perspectives on health care delivery in California as of 1995.
The health care delivery system is made up of providers--hospitals and doctors--increasingly organized into medical groups. Medical groups interact with payors, primarily health maintenance organizations, that increasingly pass through both risk and prices from increasingly demanding purchasers. This article summarizes the present and future prospects for each of these groups.
Singer
S J
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business, California 94305, USA.
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