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Managed Care August 2002 Joyce Ochs	Managed Care's Use of Web Not Just for Marketing Anymore Virtually all MCOs today have Web sites as a matter of course. The challenge is to have a site useful enough to make people come back, while the operating challenge is to transfer selected company functions entirely or partially to the Internet to increase efficiency and reduce expenses.
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