title: Denver group gives up FFS, successfully converts seniors to Medicare managed care.
abstract: Three tips to move your practice from fee-for-service Medicare to managed care only. New West Physicians, a 63-provider primary care group in Denver, has given up fee-for-service Medicare and will only see seniors enrolled in Medicare HMOs. Find out how the group made the change and in the process retained its patients.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003120:Colorado; D005194:Family Practice / Q000191:economics; D018588:Fee-for-Service Plans; D006125:Group Practice, Prepaid / Q000191:economics*; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000191:economics; D020398:Medicare Part C; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D020414:Risk Sharing, Financial; D014481:United States