Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prepaid groups and organized delivery systems: promise, performance, and potential / Stephen M. Shortell and Julie Schmittdiel -- Systems and results: the basis for quality care in prepaid group practice / Donald M. Berwick and Sachin H. Jain -- The clinical and economic performance of prepaid group practice / Kenneth H. Chuang, Harold S. Luft and R. Adams Dudley -- Prepaid group practice and health care policy / Jon B. Christianson and George Avery -- Technology assessment, deployment, and implementation in prepaid group practice / David M. Eddy -- Managing the pharmacy benefit in prepaid group practice / William H. Campbell, Richard E. Johnson and Sharon L. Levine -- Prepaid group practice and medical workforce policy / Jonathan P. Weiner -- Prepaid group practice and health care research / Raymond Fink and Merwyn R. Greenlick -- Physician leadership: group responsibility as key to accountability in medicine / Francis J. Crosson, Allan J. Weiland and Robert A. Berenson --

The limits of prepaid group practice / James C. Robinson -- The relationship between prepaid group practice and the employer community / Helen Darling -- Open the markets and level the playing field / Alain C. Enthoven.