Which methods are used by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to reduce the cost of health-care delivery?
a. Increasing the number of diagnostic stu-dies to detect diseases early
b. Encouraging clients to remain in the hos-pital longer so that they can recover com-pletely and not be readmitted
c. Referring more clients to specialists so that complex health-care problems can be treated better
d. Providing more health-promotion and ill-ness-prevention services
D
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