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Medicare's POS option.

P L Grimaldi
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Guidelines recently issued by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) explicitly allow health maintenance organizations (HMOs) with a Medicare risk contract to sell a point-of-service (POS) benefit to their Medicare members. For an additional charge, these HMO members will now be allowed to go out-of-network for certain medical services.

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P L Grimaldi. 1996. Medicare's POS option.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8632862/

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