title: Babes in managed care land. Provider-sponsored networks are stepping cautiously into risk contracting.
abstract: Provider-sponsored networks are babes in managed-care land. Except for a few mature, sophisticated systems, PSNs have a lot of learning to do when it comes to the very grown-up business of bearing financial risk for patients' healthcare coverage.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pallarito
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee; D019058:Community Networks / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012308:Risk Management / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States