title: Managed care's move to rural areas.
abstract: Medicare, Medicaid, and urban-based commercial health plans are attempting to increase managed care's presence in the nation's rural areas, prompting rural-based providers to sponsor their own managed-care plans.
authors.affiliation: Birch & Davis Health Management Corp., Silver Spring, Md., USA.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Grimaldi
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008484:Medicaid; D006278:Medicare; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States