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• HMOs are organized either as group practices or individual practice associations.
• The Marin Individual Practice Association met half the criteria by missing the financial standards but meeting the more management-oriented ones.
• PBGH also singled out several doctors'groups that scored above average in preventive care _ including the San Mateo IPA ( Individual Practice Association ) and the IPA of the Redwoods.
• The company's largest shareholder, the Greater Bridgeport Individual Practice Association Inc ., controls about 55 percent of voting shares and has been pushing the company's board for the sale.
• Cupertino resident Ed Madden, 78, used the LifeMasters program until his medical group, the Santa Clara County ( Calif . ) Individual Practice Association, switched to the Health Buddy about three months ago.
• Physicians Health, Connecticut's largest health maintenance organization, is locked in a dispute with the Greater Bridgeport Individual Practice Association Inc ., which controls about 55 percent of voting shares and wants the company to explore a sale.
• Santa Clara County Individual Practice Association, an 850-physician group, hired HiLife in mid-December to work with its chronically ill heart patients, said Dr . M . Lawrence Bonham, the group's chief executive.
• Other insiders who sold stock after exercising stock options in the first week of March included Dillon; Joseph Dufresne, executive vice president of provider networks; Susan Goff, president of M . D . Individual Practice Association Inc . subsidiary; Mark Groban, president of a Mid Atlantic Psychiatric Services Inc . subsidiary and Joseph Guarriello, general counsel and executive vice president.
• "We're just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of using this kind of technology to gather data and trying to figure out how to implement this in a proactive way to keep patients out of the hospital, " said Dr . Alan Giberson, associate medical director of the Santa Clara County Individual Practice Association, which has 800 physicians and 125, 000 HMO members.