Utilization Patterns of Health Maintenance Organization Disenrollees
作者:
Mary Griffith,
Nicholas Baloff,
Edward Spitznagel,
期刊:
Medical Care
(OVID Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 22,
issue 9
页码: 827-834
ISSN:0025-7079
年代: 1984
出版商: OVID
关键词: HMO;utilization;disenrollment;longitudinal analysis
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
This article addresses several questions about the effect of disenrollment on the start-up phenomenon in health maintenance organizations that were raised in a recent exchange of articles and comments in this journal. The results show that disenrollees, like continuous enrollees, go through a start-up phase of utilization that decreases over duration of membership to a stable lower level. The study also differentiates between voluntary and involuntary disenrollees, both of which go through start-ups. The different characteristics of the start-ups of both groups of disenrollees are contrasted with those of continuous enrollees. The implications of these findings for planners and administrators are discussed, and a future research agenda is recommended.
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