Individual Practice Associations

An Individual Practice Associations (IPAs) is an association of doctors or organization who maintain their own office and group. That has contracted with an HMO to give services to the HMO subscribers. An HMO may contract with an IPA which contracts with individual doctors to treat patients at reduce cost fees, on a capitation basis or fee for service reimbursement. The doctor joining an IPA, it may need to pay a membership fee.