Business of Medicine archive: Contracting
Prospects dimming for expanded private contracting
New legislation allowing physicians to privately contract with their Medicare patients meeting opposition(June 1998)
When and how to get out of a managed care contract
Physicians need to determine when the problems outweigh the benefits of participation in a plan (November 1996)
Doctors in charge? Direct contracting may make it happen
This new model would allow patients to buy their managed care directly from the providers (January 1996)
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