Jeremy Miller and Wayne Miller Discuss Physicians and IPAs Struggle With Deselection

Today’s competitive managed care environment has created much tension between IPAs’ physician managers and their physician members. Many IPAs (independent practice associations), under pressure to maintain quality care while controlling the costs to deliver care, are responding by reducing their membership. IPA physicians naturally feel they are being treated unfairly if they are “deselected” by having their IPA contract terminated “without cause.”

Learn more about the struggle at: Doctor Versus Doctor – Physicians and IPAs Struggle With Deselection California Physician, November 1996

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