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In the United States, an independent practice association (IPA) is an association of independent physicians, or other organizations that contracts with independent care delivery organizations, and provides services to managed care organizations on a negotiated per capita rate, flat retainer fee, or negotiated fee-for-service basis. [1] [2]
If not already part of a group medical practice, physicians may contract with an independent practice association (IPA), which in turn contracts with the HMO. This model is an example of an open-panel HMO, where a physician may maintain their own office and may see non-HMO members.
Analysis of a clinical and cost utilization data from the years 2003 to 2005 by an integrative medicine independent physician association (IPA) which looked the chiropractic services utilization found that the clinical and cost utilization of chiropractic services based on 70,274 member-months over a 7-year period decreased patient costs ...
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The American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association (AMA) have spoken out against the board. [36] [37] The AMA wanted to change the IPAB requirement that members have no outside employment so working physicians could be considered. [38] The AMA also opposed any independent commission which could cut physician payment rates. [39]
Vitas “regularly ignored concerns expressed by its own physicians and nurses regarding whether its hospice patients were receiving appropriate care,” the lawsuit alleges. Prosecutors claim the fraud didn’t just occur in that past, but that it is ongoing, with the knowledge of executives at both Vitas and Chemed Corp., the company’s parent.
An Independent Practice Association is a legal entity that contracts with a group of physicians to provide service to the HMO's members. Most often, the physicians are paid on a basis of capitation , which in this context means a set amount for each enrolled person assigned to that physician or group of physicians, whether or not that person ...
This guy gave new meaning to the slogan “Gottahava Wawa.” Police in East Windsor, N.J., arrested a 24-year-old man on Dec. 23, and charged him with misusing the town’s 911 system for ...