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Originally Posted by dbussone
Your supposition is quite accurate. For HMO patients the docs typically receive a set amount per patient per month (pppm). PPO patients are paid to the docs on a reduced fee basis, and most others on an insured negotiated basis.
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The Villages Clinics are NOT typical. It was said over and over that this is a NEW (revolutionary) system of healthcare that would eventually be the model for the rest of the country to follow. There's nothing typical about it according to those who have been promoting it. So we can only imagine what the financial arrangement is between the doctors and the HMO. But we do know that the doctor's salary has been called "generous", whatever that is.