Data are presented on office-bascd general practitioners and pediatricians working in
varying practice settings. Fee-for-service physicians spend more time in direct patient care …

The study is concerned with the practice of physicians in a prepaid group practice setting.
Specifically, it is concerned 1) with investigating the extent of variation in physician behavior …

Practice patterns and patient-reported outcomes of care are compared in detail for ten
physicians and 12 new health practitioners delivering ambulatory care in two departments of …

Does a prepaid group practice deliver less care than the fee-for-service system when both
serve comparable populations with comparable benefits? To answer this question, we …

Rates of utilization and costs of medical care by a study group in a prepaid group practice,
the Medical Care Group of Washington University (MCG), were compared prospectively over …

Members of prepaid group-practice medical-care plans are believed to use more
ambulatory, but fewer inpatient, services than populations served by fee-for-service …

Abstract Analysis of national survey data on physician-patient encounters raises questions
about physician education and manpower policy. Data compiled by the University of …

The level of participation of a stratified sample of physicians in large group medical practices
serving prepaid subscribers is significantly associated with their views of clients, colleagues …

To model a base level of physician demand in a managed health care system, we examined
in 1983 the ratios by specialty of full-time equivalent physicians to health maintenance …

Based on an extensive field study of the practitioners in a large, prepaid service contract
group practice, this paper discusses how a prepaid service contract and closed-panel …