Texas HMO Membership Continues Downward Trend While PPO Membership Increases, According to New Research From Healthleaders-Interstudy.NASHVILLE Nashville, city (1990 pop. 487,969), state capital, coextensive with Davidson co., central Tenn., on the Cumberland River, in a fertile farm area; inc. as a city 1806, merged with Davidson co. 1963. , Tenn., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a leading provider of managed care industry intelligence, finds that health plans are continuing the trend of shaving HMO HMO health maintenance organization.HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, membership in Texas. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the new Texas Health Plan Analysis, while some of that lost membership is because of gravitation to PPOs, some of it appears due to the rising ranks of the uninsured. "Although Texas HMO membership declined from 16.2% of the commercial market to 13.5% between January 2004 and July 2004, membership for single insurer and provider-sponsored PPOs across the state increased over the same time period," said Paula DeWitt, analyst at HealthLeaders-InterStudy. "However, the increase in PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there membership was not as much as HMO membership declined."
Other Health Plan News in Texas
* Proposals to remove health insurance mandates and to restore cuts made
in the state's health programs for poor people are among the healthcare
issues coming before the current Texas Legislature.
* Scott & White Health Plan is offering a new product for children aimed
at the working poor who can't afford or don't have access to family
coverage. Premiums are $85 a month and can be paid by an aunt, uncle or
grandparent, as well as the parents.
* PacifiCare is targeting the Hispanic market with its SignatureFreedom
consumer-driven product, which couples a high-deductible PPO with a
"self-directed account" that is meant to cover routine and preventive
care.
* Texas Medicare HMOs continue to enhance their benefits for 2005, and
Medicare PPOs are on their way to the state.
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