Preferred provider organizations

G de Lissovoy, T Rice, J Gabel, HJ Gelzer. Preferred provider organizations one year later. Inquiry 24 127-135, 1987. 

Muro Pharmaceutical, Inc. anticipated that a new concentration of an established produet eould indeed cause confusion and developed new packaging for both concentrations. Muro also sent mailers that annoimced the availability of two eoneentrations of Prelone to 32,000 pediatricians and 65,000 pharmacies, wholesalers, HMOs, and Preferred Provider Organization (PPOs). 

Medicare Advantage A Medicare-approved private health care plan, such as a health maintenance network or preferred provider organization, that serves as an alternative to a fee-for-service plan for Medicare participants and partially or totally covers prescription drug costs. 

Under indemnity insurance, insurers pay a predetermined portion of the providers fees. There are few restrictions on what a provider can charge and what the insurer will pay for. More than half fhe workers are now enrolled in preferred provider organizations (PPOs), a less restrictive form of managed care. Abouf one quarter of workers selecf HMOs. Only 5% are enrolled in convenfional indemnity insurance plans. 

Preferred provider organizations (PPOs) are now the most popular form of health insurance among persons with employer-sponsored health insurance. 

PPO Preferred Provider Organization Policy and Procedure Order... 

Fritz, D, L., Drug Use Review Principles Adopted by Key Organizations, Journal of the American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations l(4) 22-26, 1991. 

American Association of Preferred Providers Organizations (AAPPO) reorganized as the Association of Managed health care Organizations (AMHO). 

PPA (Pollution Prevention Act), 1164 PPOs (preferred provider organizations), 738 Practice-based team training, 934 Precision forging, 581-583, 1317 Precision mechanics, 365 Predatory pricing, 681 Predetermined time standards (PTS), 1413, 1427-1446... 

American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations 601 13th Street, NW Suite 370 South... 

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