title: Hospitals need to help Medicare HMOs.
abstract: Many of the health maintenance organizations that rushed to create Medicare products are bailing out of their Medicare contracts. Donald E.L. Johnson writes that Medicare HMOs face market and government challenges, and hospitals should try to anticipate HMOs' next moves and have responses ready.
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authors: Johnson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003284:Contract Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000639:trends; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007449:Investments; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017008:Negotiating; D011907:Rate Setting and Review; D014481:United States