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THE MOSES H. CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
MEMORANDUM
TO: The Medical Board, Dr. R. L. Phillips, President
FROM: Ad Hoc Committee on Feasibility Study re HMO
Associated with Moses Cone Hospital
DATE: August 23, 1971
Your Committee has met four times and we now are prepared to report.
The briefest definition of an HMO is
A corporation which provides health services to
enrollees on a prepayment per capita basis.
The corporation may be public or private, profit or non-profit. The health
services may be provided by the corporation or may be subcontracted in
part or in whole. The corporation will have to deal with three separate
components: people, hospital and physician.
1. The people . There would be a marketing problem. Ten
thousand enrollees would be needed as a start-up group. . .
30, 000 an ideal number. Industry probably must be the main
purchaser for the volume business, but open enrollment is
also necessary. Blue Cross presented to us a "how to"
mechanism for enrolling the group to be served. Other
agencies or the group itself could choose to provide these
services.
2. The hospital. It would not be wise or logical or feasible or
probably even legal to use the entire facilities of Moses Cone
Hospital as a prepaid provider of-health services. However,
it is entirely feasible and legal to use a portion of Moses
Cone Hospital (or any hospital) for such an endeavor. A
contractual agreement to have X beds and facilities available
can be worked out without too much difficulty. Moses Cone
Hospital has taken a co-operative and supportive position in
this endeavor.
3. The physician . The sine qua non of an HMO is going to be a
group of physicians who will serve. The minimum nucleus
needed is a group of primary physicians (generalists, general
Medicine -- North Carolina -- Greensboro -- History
Place
Greensboro (N.C.)
Description
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and minutes related to the Ad Hoc Committee on Feasibility Study re HMO Associated with Moses Cone Hospital. Particularly noted is Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Type
text
Original format
minutes;documents;correspondence
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language
en
Contributing institution
Cone Health Medical Library
Contact Information
Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital 1200 North Elm Street Greensboro, NC 27401 336.832.7484 http://www.gahec.org/library/
Source collection
Cone 10081 Robert L. Phillips Collection, 1890s-2003
)i- m o
THE MOSES H. CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
MEMORANDUM
TO: The Medical Board, Dr. R. L. Phillips, President
FROM: Ad Hoc Committee on Feasibility Study re HMO
Associated with Moses Cone Hospital
DATE: August 23, 1971
Your Committee has met four times and we now are prepared to report.
The briefest definition of an HMO is
A corporation which provides health services to
enrollees on a prepayment per capita basis.
The corporation may be public or private, profit or non-profit. The health
services may be provided by the corporation or may be subcontracted in
part or in whole. The corporation will have to deal with three separate
components: people, hospital and physician.
1. The people . There would be a marketing problem. Ten
thousand enrollees would be needed as a start-up group. . .
30, 000 an ideal number. Industry probably must be the main
purchaser for the volume business, but open enrollment is
also necessary. Blue Cross presented to us a "how to"
mechanism for enrolling the group to be served. Other
agencies or the group itself could choose to provide these
services.
2. The hospital. It would not be wise or logical or feasible or
probably even legal to use the entire facilities of Moses Cone
Hospital as a prepaid provider of-health services. However,
it is entirely feasible and legal to use a portion of Moses
Cone Hospital (or any hospital) for such an endeavor. A
contractual agreement to have X beds and facilities available
can be worked out without too much difficulty. Moses Cone
Hospital has taken a co-operative and supportive position in
this endeavor.
3. The physician . The sine qua non of an HMO is going to be a
group of physicians who will serve. The minimum nucleus
needed is a group of primary physicians (generalists, general
