>Doctors Steer Sick Patients Away From Capitated HMOs
>Quality Concerns Drive Inadvertent "Cherry Picking"
This behavior by physicians with a choice of payment systems is not 'inadvertent', it is the expected behavior of physicians in a poorly structured capitated payment system. It boils down to risk and accountability; provide a way to minimize both while providing opportunities to maximize income and the results are inevitable, not inadvertent.
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