Establishing a statewide primary care network: the PrimaryOne experience.

To insure that patients receive the highest quality, cost-effective health care in the future, primary care physicians must become the leaders in the reform. The future of medicine belongs in physicians' hands. Physicians have the opportunity to bring about the greatest reform to the largest industry in the world, and do it in such a fashion that patient care is not compromised. The following article describes the purpose, objectives, organizational structure, accomplishments, philosophy, goals, results, and future of PrimaryOne and its HMO, PrimeONE.