{"title":"Health maintenance organizations and psychiatric care.","authors":"T E Bittker","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prepaid psychiatric practice offers a number of cost-effective approaches to treating approximately 90% of the world's population. After reviewing the goal of prepaid psychiatry--to provide high quality medical care to a defined population at an affordable price--the author presents an overview of the fundamental components of this type of service delivery.</p>","PeriodicalId":79717,"journal":{"name":"Resident and staff physician","volume":"33 11","pages":"113-4, 117, 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1987-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Resident and staff physician","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Prepaid psychiatric practice offers a number of cost-effective approaches to treating approximately 90% of the world's population. After reviewing the goal of prepaid psychiatry--to provide high quality medical care to a defined population at an affordable price--the author presents an overview of the fundamental components of this type of service delivery.