An organization that has contractual arrangements with a hospital or hospitals and physicians with the basic purpose of entering into managed care contracts to provide services to enrollees of the plan
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Physician Hospital Organizations (PHO) are physician and hospital joint ventures typically organized to attract members from HMOs and self-insured employers
Physician-Hospital Organization These are legal (or perhaps informal) organizations that bond hospitals and the attending medical staff Frequently developed for the purpose of contracting with managed care plans