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Abstract
Laws requiring patients under managed care programs to receive services from the physician or other provider of their choice. Any willing provider laws take many different forms, but they typically prohibit managed-care organizations from having a closed panel of physicians, hospitals, or other providers.
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- AWS-FOC Laws
- Choice of Health Care Provider Laws
- Choice of Healthcare Provider Laws
- Selective Provider Restrictions
- Provider Restriction, Selective
- Provider Restrictions, Selective
- Restriction, Selective Provider
- Restrictions, Selective Provider
- Selective Provider Restriction
- Any Willing Provider Laws
- Any-Willing-Provider-Laws
- Point of Service Regulations
- Any-Willing-Provider-Law
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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1999
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Patient Freedom of Choice Laws. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D020403. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D020403
- Patient Freedom of Choice Laws. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70374518