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Their findings, released Monday in the journal Medical Care, surveyed 279 leading health care professors at 17 American universities. Compared to a control group of professors who do not study health care, the experts were nearly half as likely to choose an HMO plan for themselves...
...doctors’ choices don’t necessarily indicate that HMO patient care is inferior, Studdert said...
...These doctors may have stronger distaste for the constraints that HMOs impose,” he said. “Through their work, they may have preferences for specific providers and facilities that are not part of the HMO network on offer...
However, it is also possible that the doctors’ choices indicate flaws in the HMO system...
...study, which Studdert has guided since 1999, also revealed that physicians in general, and non-physicians with yearly incomes above $150,000, were less likely to choose HMO care than non-physicians with lower incomes...