Dr. Ronald Darling would like to forget the days when health maintenance organizations strictly required referrals from primary care physicians before patients could even get through his door. And the ...
The Business Journals: No more gatekeepers: Days of HMOs' referral restrictions coming to an end No more gatekeepers: Days of HMOs' referral restrictions coming to an end Nature: Guidelines for breast and ovarian cancer genetic counseling referral: Adoption and implementation in HMOs Purpose To describe referral guidelines for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) counseling among a group of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and awareness of such among primary care ... Guidelines for breast and ovarian cancer genetic counseling referral: Adoption and implementation in HMOs Disadvantages to HMOs include: Some HMO plans offer "open access," meaning that you won't need a referral to see a specialist and you may go outside of the plan network and receive benefits. Using the ... The lines that distinguish HMOs, PPOs, EPOs and POS plans from one another have blurred, making it hard to know what you're buying by name alone.
