title: HMOs may be ready to drop costly physicians.
abstract: After expanding their physician panels for several years in an effort to attract new enrollees, HMOs appear to be reversing course in an effort to control expenditures. In some areas, 20% to 30% of physicians could lose their HMO contracts, writes Donald E. L. Johnson.
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authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D004651:Employment; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010067:Ownership; D011057:Politics; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce