Eye care delivery in prepaid group practice.

This paper represents original research from the clinical implementation over a five-year period of eye care as a primary health care resource within the Medical Group of the Genesee Valley Group Health Association at the Joseph C. Wilson Health Center in Rochester, New York. The primary care delivered at this health maintenance organization has been organized in a multidisciplinary fashion with the doctor of optometry functioning as the primary eye care provider, and clinical administrator, and the ophthalmologist functioning as the medical and surgical consultative specialist. The data and information generated from this research represents four years of extensive clinical care delivered to a prepaid patient population in excess of 35,000 members.