The contribution of health plans and provider organizations to variations in measured plan quality
- 18 March 2010
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal for Quality in Health Care
- Vol. 22 (3) , 210-218
- https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzq011
Abstract
Objective Some argue that health plans have minimal impacts on quality of care and that quality data collection should focus only on physician organizations. We investigate the relative impact of physician organizations and health plans on quality measures.Keywords
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