The late 1990s crash of HMOs opened the door to a major consolidation of the health insurance market controlled largely by national and super-regional health plans.
Curious if you can elaborate why PPO reduced physician economic power. Is this because they did not aggregate @ IPA as in prepaid plans? Why could they not get together and negotiate when defining "in network"?
Curious if you can elaborate why PPO reduced physician economic power. Is this because they did not aggregate @ IPA as in prepaid plans? Why could they not get together and negotiate when defining "in network"?
Thanks for the deep link on PacifiCare!