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Missouri Advantage
Author(s) -
Casey Michelle,
Yawn Barbara
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
the journal of rural health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.439
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1748-0361
pISSN - 0890-765X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-0361.1998.tb00627.x
Subject(s) - business , organizational structure , equity (law) , product (mathematics) , medicare advantage , operations management , health care , economic growth , management , political science , engineering , economics , geometry , mathematics , law
Summary Missouri Advantage HMO is a newly developed, small HMO based in a rural area. Strongly committed to local control, Missouri Advantage has a highly decentralized organizational structure. Its four rural hospital owners have built Missouri Advantage's initial enrollment base with hospital employees, capitalizing on their positions as the largest employers in their communities. The HMOs future plans include recruitment of additional rural hospitals and physician organizations as new equity owners of the HMO, and development of new products, including a Medicare risk product.