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Healthcare Intermediaries

Alex Stein, Cardozo Law School

Abstract

This article identifies various factors — legal and economic — that reduce the quality of medical care under the MCO framework. Specifically, it identifies MCOs’ functioning as platforms in a two-sided economy and the virtual absence of incentives on the part of MCOs and their doctors to compete with each other over the quality of medical care. The article also develops a law reform proposal that would unlock that competition.

Suggested Citation

Alex Stein. "Healthcare Intermediaries" Regulation (2007).
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alex_stein/17