title: Provider plan in Medicare risk shares experience, offers advice.
abstract: Sound advice from a survivor. Yellowstone Community Health Plan in Billings, MT, is one of the few rural Medicare Choices demonstration programs still operating. Leaders of this provider-sponsored HMO reveal what all providers need to know about the universal problems in Medicare risk and transitioning into Medicare+Choice.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D003284:Contract Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D020398:Medicare Part C / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009009:Montana; D010865:Pilot Projects; D020414:Risk Sharing, Financial; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology