title: Opportunities for PSOs: an interview with Albert Holloway.
abstract: The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 authorizes provider-sponsored organizations (PSOs) to contract directly with Medicare as one of the new Medicare+Choice risk plan options for beneficiaries. The act allows HHS to waive state insurance licensure requirements in some circumstances and makes it easier for PSOs and other risk plans to operate. The act includes additional implications for PSOs. Recently, Albert Holloway, president and CEO, The IPA Association of America, Oakland, California, and a member of HFMA's Board of Directors, granted HFM the following interview to discuss opportunities the new PSO legislation affords hospitals and physicians.
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authors.lastname: Holloway
mesh_terms: D019058:Community Networks / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004465:Economic Competition; D006123:Group Practice; D008004:Licensure; D006278:Medicare; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010820:Physicians; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States