title: When is a group practice ready for Medicare risk contracting?
abstract: As senior citizens choose alternatives to traditional Medicare, group practices need to learn how Medicare risk contracting differs from traditional Medicare arrangements. To provide healthcare to Medicare patients, group practices should participate in both Medicare risk contracting and Medicare fee-for-service, but they need to make some operational changes to accommodate all these patients. When implementing an operational plan, group practices should consider three key factors-practice location, education of support staff and patients, and facility accessibility. The practice needs to accommodate the special needs of senior citizens to secure and retain a stable patient base.
authors.affiliation: Penn State Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, USA.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gerrity
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002204:Capitation Fee; D006125:Group Practice, Prepaid / Q000191:economics*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D016345:Medicare Part B / Q000191:economics*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D012308:Risk Management; D014481:United States