Non-physician family health teams for health maintenance organizations.

Do Health Maintenance Organizations Work for Medicare?

Since 1985, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has encouraged health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to provide Medicare coverage to enrolled beneficiaries for fixed prepaid premiums. Our evaluation shows that the risk program achieves some of its goals while not fulfilling others. We find that HMOs provide care of comparable quality to that delivered by free-for-service (FFS) pro...

Employer attitudes toward health maintenance organizations.

Medicare enrollment in health maintenance organizations

The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) of 1982 (Public Law 97-248) provided new incentives for health maintenance organizations (HMO's) to enroll Medicare beneficiaries on an at-risk basis. TEFRA provisions encouraging HMO participation in Medicare on an at-risk basis sought to further the goals of promoting competition and cost effectiveness, and providing greater beneficiary cho...

[Evaluation of health planning activities by family health teams].

Evaluation of health planning activities adapted to the local context is an essential part of daily work in the Family Health Strategy (FHS). This study aimed to evaluate the planning activities conducted by family health teams in Espírito Santo State, Brazil. This was an ecological study based on secondary data from 241 health teams in 46 municipalities (counties) in the State that use the Eva...

Health education: the family health teams' perspective and clients' participation.

This study aimed to understand the conception and performance of health education developed by the Family Health Team with a view to clients' participation. Qualitative study carried out with clients and professionals at the Family Health Program (FHP) in Crato, CE, Brazil. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and observation between May and September, 2005. Data were organize...