title: Finance, providers issue brief: HMO medical directors.
abstract: Medical directors of managed care organizations have the ultimate responsibility of deciding which treatments a health plan will pay for. Cognizant of consumer concerns over the power inherent in the position, states are seeking to inject more accountability into the decision-making process.  Among the issues with which they have begun to grapple: whether medical directors should be required to hold a medical license from the state in which they work and, by extension, whether they should be under the jurisdiction of the state medical board.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rothouse
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States