Medical care is local. We evaluate IPAs on the criteria that actually matter: quality of care, financial soundness, and partnership.
Given the differences between markets, there is a strong temptation to think that the evolutionary theory of managed care applies to IPAs, the theory that California is the crest of the wave and that whatever happens there will wash over the rest of the country in the next decade. Resist it. If medical care is local, then what we really have are different medical environments, the way we have mountains, seashores, and deserts, with local medical communities adapting to their own conditions rather than blindly adopting whatever appears on the West Coast.
It is also a mistake to assume that IPAs everywhere else are primitive. So when we talk about the best IPA, we use criteria that cross the various types. We are talking about IPAs that provide high quality care, that are fiscally sound, and that make good business partners.
“Maintenance Matrix is taking risk contracts and we do it well; we have never lost.
By almost any measure we have seen from the plans we work with, our affiliates report higher levels of patient satisfaction.
Our affiliates come out higher on essentially any type of quality indicator we are measured against.
Their costs are almost always 12 to 15 percent below the business they do not control.
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