Rewards Quality Blue Cross of California plans to pay bonuses to doctors serving its health maintenance organization members based on patient satisfaction and other quality standards, not for cost-cutting.
Blue Cross of California, one of the nation's largest health insurers, announced yesterday that it would pay bonuses to doctors serving its health maintenance organization members based on patient satisfaction and other quality standards.
Where is this nonprofit organization based?
Ms. Moebius said the pool created by Michigan and New Hampshire could turn Medicaid into "the equivalent of a government-run health maintenance organization, making decisions based on cost rather than the needs of individual patients".
Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., the health maintenance organization, has named Campbell-Ewald, based in Warren, Mich., as its national brand agency for advertising, a new assignment.
In 1986 he helped found a prescription-drug joint venture between a St. Louis-based health maintenance organization and a retail drugstore chain.
They are Blue Shield Anthem Blue Crosss of California, owned by WellPoint; Kaiser Permanente, the health maintenance organization giant; and Health Net, a commercial insurer based in Los Angeles.
That study was based on data compiled by an American health maintenance organization and showed that severe reactions were more common among people who combined Baycol with gemfibrozil than among people who combined other cholesterol-lowering drugs.
One report based on well-child visits at a health maintenance organization in Massachusetts was particularly disturbing: The prevalence of overweight in infants 0 6 months of age almost doubled between 1980 and 2001, from 3.4% to 5.9% (Kim et al. 2006).
Usually the patients were followed at the cataract clinic of our Medical Center during the first postoperative month and then sent for continued care at the community-based-clinics of their health maintenance organization.
