BACKGROUND We wanted to examine how membership in a health maintenance
organization (HMO) is related to delivery of preventive clinical services to patients with …

Several issues relevant to Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) were examined in this
article using data collected from the Los Angeles Health Survey. No support was found for …

This study analyzes the effects of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) on the use of
health services by the privately insured, nonelderly population. After controlling for …

A sample of 1,042 adults was drawn from an employed population who were given the
option of enrollment in any of three prepaid, HMO-type organizations, one of which was an …

This analysis addresses the question of biased selection into health maintenance
organizations (HMOs) by using recent, nationally representative data from the Community …

Objectives. We examined the effect of demographic and socioeconomic factors on use of
preventive services (prostate-specific antigen testing, colorectal cancer screening, and …

Background. Ethnic disparities in access to health care is a persistent problem in the US.
Despite the broad implementation of managed care, there is little information that specifically …

OBJECTIVE: We examined the relation between race/ethnicity and receipt of preventive
services and the effect of having a usual source of care (USOC) on receipt of preventive …

This study examines the impact of Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) coverage on the
provision of preventive medicine. We investigate whether any association reflects selection …

Greater use of preventive services by enrollees of HMOs than of other health plans is often
assumed to reflect differences in philosophy about" health maintenance." But organizational …