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• Hill Physicians and Brown & Toland are Independent Practice Associations, or IPAs.
• The union claims the association gives doctors a bigger voice than some large for-profit independent practice associations.
• Marc Moser, chief executive officer of Torrance Hospital Independent Practice Association, said the idea behind a scorecard is beneficial for consumers.
• For instance, UAPD operates a nonprofit " independent practice association " that doctors can join to negotiate group contracts with health maintenance organizations.
• To skirt the antitrust barrier, many doctors are forming independent practice associations, essentially large group practices that allow physicians to bargain together with HMOs.
• More than 20 such " independent practice associations " went bankrupt last year, and many are insolvent, while 23 hospitals have closed.
• Moran added that HMOs now essentially collectively bargain with independent practice associations, which are coalitions of doctors who offer various services from the same location.
• Keeping track of this data and using it to grant doctors membership in HMOs, Independent Practice Associations or hospitals is the backbone of " economic credentialing ."
• Lori Hack, executive director of the Alta Bates Medical Group in Berkeley, said doctors in California have increasingly banded together into independent practice associations to negotiate rates with insurers.
• The modifications have come from some of the more venturesome Independent Practice Associations, known as IPAs, which are groups of doctors that sign contracts with HMOs to treat enrollees.
• The penalty will apply to the 350 physicians in the Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association Inc ., according to an internal memorandum obtained by today's Boston Globe.
• In the "'network model "', an HMO will contract with any combination of groups, IPAs ( Independent Practice Associations ), and individual physicians.
• To make it easier on themselves, doctors often hire an independent practice association, or IPA, to negotiate contracts with health plans and take care of managed-care operations.
• It was a bitter pill to swallow for the 19 independent practice associations in Houston, representing about 1, 800 physicians, that had hired NAMM to cut through red tape.
• In August 2000, Benefis signed an agreement with Treasure State Healthcare Network, an independent practice association ( IPA ) representing about 30 percent of the physicians practicing in Great Falls.
• These providers generally are contracted with a type of health maintenance organization ( HMO ) known as an independent practice association ( IPA ), which enlists the providers to care for HMO-enrolled patients.
• The fine, which had been scheduled to take effect Nov . 1, outraged many of the 350 physicians in the Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association Inc ., a network of doctors that contract with HMOs.
• In another arrangement, the Independent Practice Association of Western New York, comprising 2, 000 primary-care doctors and specialists, is paid an annual fee by a health plan called Independent Health of Buffalo to care for plan members.
• Hit by sharp criticisms, the Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association Inc . Thursday made a hasty retreat from plans to impose a $ 250-a-day fine on doctors whose hospital admissions are deemed " not medically necessary ."
• "It's pushing the envelope, " said Dr . David Himmelstein, an internist in the group, called the Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association Inc . " We've been bordering on the immoral for a long time.