Lessons from a teaching hospital's HMO.
In 1983, a Minneapolis teaching hospital and its county government came up with a non-traditional approach to bolstering the hospital's bottom line and addressing the county's indigent care problem--a health maintenance organization to serve the county's large Medicaid population. Five years later, all involved agree that the solution was a sound one.
D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006766:Hospitals, County / Q000191:economics*; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000191:economics*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000191:economics*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008910:Minnesota; D010865:Pilot Projects; D010934:Planning Techniques