1.   And the plans are willing to pay physicians significantly more than they can make in a private rural practice.

2.   A highly publicized malpractice case in Simi Valley, California, has heightened awareness of the way some HMO physicians are paid.

3.   Also require HMOs to tell patients how they pay physicians.

4.   The companies that oversee trials for pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms have for several years paid private physicians to recruit their patients.

5.   The IPA, in turn, pays its physicians and performs tasks like processing claims.

6.   The result was nothing less than a series of seismic changes ranging from how physicians are paid to how they practice medicine.

7.   There should be a way to pay honest physicians to provide treatment over the ceiling.

8.   Dr. Ahmed Abdullah, who spent eight years working in Saudi hospitals, said Egyptian physicians were paid one-third less than Filipino nurses.