Acknowledgments.

The Contributors.

Foreword (William L. Roper).

Preface (Alain C. Enthoven, Laura A. Tollen).

1. Prepaid Groups and Organized Delivery Systems: Promise, Performance, and Potential (Stephen M. Shortell and Julie Schmittdiel).

2. Systems and Results: The Basis for Quality Care in Prepaid Group Practice (Donald M. Berwick and Sachin H. Jain).

3. The Clinical and Economic Performance of Prepaid Group Practice (Kenneth H. Chuang, Harold S. Luft, and R. Adams Dudley).

4. Prepaid Group Practice and Health Care Policy (Jon B. Christianson and George Avery).

5. Technology Assessment, Deployment, and Implementation in Prepaid Group Practice (David M. Eddy).

6. Managing the Pharmacy Benefit in Prepaid Group Practice (William H. Campbell, Richard E. Johnson, and Sharon L. Levine).

7. Prepaid Group Practice and Medical Workforce Policy (Jonathan P. Weiner).

8. Prepaid Group Practice and Health Care Research (Raymond Fink and Merwyn R. Greenlick).

9. Physician Leadership: “Group Respons ibility” as Key to Accountability in Medicine (Francis J. Crosson, Allan J. Weiland, and Robert A. Berenson).

10. The Limits of Prepaid Group Practice (James C. Robinson).

11. The Relationship Between Prepaid Group Practice and the Employer Community (Helen Darling).

12. Open the Markets and Level the Playing Field (Alain C. Enthoven).

Editors’ Introduction to the Epilogue.

Epilogue: Prepaid Group Practice and Computerized Caregiver Support Tools (George C. Halvorson).

Appendix: The Origins of Prepaid Group Practice in the United States (Jon A. Stewart).

Index.