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About Us
The
IPA (Individual Practice Association) is an organization of physicians
(M.D., D.O., D.D.S) founded in 1979 to provide a network of medical
specialties to managed care organizations.
This association which consists of 296 physicians in 37 specialties
contracts with various HMO, PPO, PHP on behalf of these 296 physicians. In
addition to negotiating fee's for its physicians, the IPA also contracts
for physician involvement in the management of its patients and the
subscribers of the managed care organization. This therefore means the
physicians are involved not only in the treatment of its patients, but by
serving on various committees and board of directors of the health
maintenance organization. They help to develop the protocol,
policies and procedures for ordering tests, treating patients, disease
management, immunology, hospital admission, out-patient surgery and
out-patient testing. Physicians caring for their patients, and making
medical decisions for the good of their patients is the prime objective of
this organization.
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