Identify two types of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) ...

[joe]

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

Question 2

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

[diesoon]

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.

Answer to Question 2

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.

[joe]

Excellent

[isabelt_18]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it