Table 3. Pre-health maintenance organization (HMO) physician contact patterns and type of plan selected: 1977-78.
| Previous physician contact pattern | Total number of families | Type of plan selected | |||||
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| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | ||
| None | 5,489 | 567 | 10.3 | 2,261 | 41.1 | 2,661 | 48.4 |
| IPA1-HMO2 | 6,472 | 6,145 | 94.9 | 195 | 3.0 | 132 | 2.0 |
| Staff-HMO2 | 2,702 | 2,653 | 98.1 | 17 | 0.6 | 32 | 1.1 |
| Non-HMO2 | 30,231 | 28,193 | 93.2 | 920 | 3.0 | 1,118 | 3.7 |
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Individual practice association.
2
Note that families may appear in more than one of these categories. In fact, the vast majority of those with HMO contacts also had contacts with non-HMO physicians.