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joe

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Identify two types of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) provider payment structures.

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Describe the differences among a sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation.



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Answer to Question 1

Answers should include: Prepaid Group Practice (PGP) are group of physicians who agree to provide comprehensive health care services for a fixed prospective per capita payment to a definite population. Individual Practice Associations (IPAs) are groups of physicians who join together into an agreement with other organizations to provide medical services to a defined population.

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Answers should include: Sole Proprietor is a single physician, therapist, or other licensed health care profession operating a business alone. A partnership is two or more people who combine their work, money, and talents to do what one could not do alone. A corporation is a group of people banding together and creating an artificial being, or entity, that can do something that the members of the group could not do individually.




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Reply 2 on: Jun 25, 2018
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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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