title: Percent-of-premium partnerships not living up to their promise.
abstract: Despite noble efforts all around, the early experience of a Providence, RI, health plan illustrates the difficulties in managing physician-driven programs based on percent-of-premium contracts.
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D002204:Capitation Fee; D003284:Contract Services / Q000191:economics; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005376:Financial Management; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000191:economics*; D009935:Organizational Affiliation / Q000191:economics; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D008486:Physician Executives; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D012052:Reimbursement, Incentive; D012237:Rhode Island; D012308:Risk Management