NU Online News Service, Oct. 9, 1:19 p.m. – Health maintenance organizations continue to lose ground in Illinois, according to a new report on the Illinois managed care market by Allen Baumgarten, a Minneapolis researcher.
Total Illinois HMO enrollment has fallen to 2.1 million, down from 2.4 million in 2000, and only one HMO continues to serve Chicago-area Medicare beneficiaries, Baumgarten says.