title: Social HMOs: lessons learned and future direction.
abstract: Brandeis University researchers collaborated with the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to develop the "social HMO" concept in the early 1980s. Four initial sites in Portland, Oregon; Minneapolis; Brooklyn, New York; and Long Beach, California, implemented programs in 1985. Its success has prompted HCFA to expand the program, which is similar to a Medicare risk-contracting HMO but with more comprehensive benefits and a modified funding mechanism, to six new sites by the end of this year.
authors.affiliation: SCAN Health Plan, Long Beach, CA 90806, USA.
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Schwab
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