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Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have found that the experts who know health maintenance organizations (HMOs) best avoid them the most when picking a plan for themselves and their families...
...What is clear from our results is that it’s the physicians, the people who are closest to the bedside and who almost certainly have the most direct experience with managed care, who were the least likely to choose HMOs,” said David Studdert, the study’s lead author and assistant professor of health policy and management...
Instead of HMOs, the experts surveyed predominantly chose fee-for-service and point-of-service health care options...
...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...
Thirty-nine percent of those with moderate-income levels chose HMOs, while only 14 percent of those with high-income levels opted for managed care...