Talk:Preferred provider organization

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Regarding merging

Merge. I'm no expert but I recommend merging because they seem very similar. In fact, the article for Participating provider option (what is being considered for merging) says in the second paragraph, "A PPO or Preferred Provider Organization" They sound interchangeable as terms. --Guroadrunner 20:17, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Needs sources

This page needs sources. It reads more like a response paper for a college assignment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.181.209.46 (talk) 21:11, 24 April 2007

the whole EPO section makes a lot of claims against EPO's without a single cite. I am going to edit it down a lot.harlock_jds (talk) 11:51, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The result of the move request was move. Jafeluv (talk) 10:39, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Preferred Provider Organization → Preferred provider organization — This is not the name of a company and I've seen few sites capitalize every single world when referring to PPO. GraYoshi2x►^talk 21:51, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support - clearly not a proper noun, so no need to capitalise. 81.110.104.91 (talk) 15:39, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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When tag: "PPOs have gained popularity in the past decade"

I added the {{when}} tag to the following sentence:

PPOs have gained popularity in the past decade because, although they tend to have slightly higher premiums than HMOs and other more restrictive plans, they offer patients more flexibility overall.

It is unclear what years "the past decade" refers to, and I can't clarify that myself. - Firefeather (talk) 00:00, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Potential for abuse

"PPOs can also contract with one another to strengthen their position in certain geographic areas without forming new relationships directly with providers. This will be mutually beneficial in theory, as the insurer will be billed at a reduced rate when its insureds utilize the services of the 'preferred' provider and the provider will see an increase in its business as almost all and or insureds in the organization will use only providers who are members" I have personally found catheters, oxygen tanks, manual wheelchairs and therapy services for sale outside of my insurance company's preferred provider networks for less than 10 cents on the dollar. This is obviously either price gouging or price fixing - considering I would have to pay out of pocket If I order goods and services outside the network without pre-approval. This can't be legal. How is it that nobody has looked into PPO's and a link to unnatural monopolies? 68.115.35.110 (talk) 08:13, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]