Health Maintenance Organizations
Data on health maintenance organizations described by M.L. Burkey et al
Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, March 28th, 2008
"This paper proposes ''selling the store'' to an HMO via a life insurance contract. The HMO becomes a residual claimant, avoiding payment as long as the patient is alive. This contract forces the HMO to provide a specified level of care, even when a patient does not know his initial level of health," wrote M.L. Burkey and colleagues.
The researchers concluded: "This contract solves several problems associated with fraudulent diagnosis and...
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