Is your organization's market ready for a Medicare PSO?
Fried, I.
Healthcare Financial Management Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association 52(7): 48-50
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0735-0732 PMID: 10180894 Document Number: 489984
Provider organizations interested in forming a Medicare PSO should first determine their market's readiness to accept a new Medicare risk product. How a Market might receive a new Medicare PSO depends on numerous factors. These factors include size and demographic characteristics of the Medicare Population; capitation rate; level of commercial and Medicare managed care enrollment; market concentration; provider supply, capabilities, and attitudes toward managed care; and prevalence of large employers and their level of interest in Medicare risk products.