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Tough Negotiations in Store Between Plans and Hospitals Fallout from the Medicare outlier-payment scandal is likely to force hospitals to try to replace that revenue. Health plans, prepare to negotiate! |
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Why Business Fears the Public Option Executives contend that it will lead health-care providers to charge patients in private plans higher rates. |
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Confronting The Medicare Cost Shift Plans are increasingly concerned about the degree to which providers overcharge them to make up for losses from government programs. |
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February 11, 2010
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Health Reform Is Dead. Let's Go Shopping Thriving insurers and hospital chains may start to gobble up competitors weakened by the recession. |
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September 2005
Ed Silverman |
No Easy Fit For Specialty Hospitals Insurers worry that specialty hospitals will ultimately increase costs at nearby community hospitals |
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January 1, 2002
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Operating Room Rising hospital costs, a plague to most companies, have helped some health-care CFOs nurse profits back to health. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Health Care: The Patient Will Live, But... Employers and consumers will continue to get hammered by rising premiums, but health-care costs will rise a bit more slowly, which is good news for insurers. |
BusinessWeek
November 8, 2004
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How Much Is That Brain Scan? If turning Americans into price-conscious health-care shoppers is ever going to work, it will require wholesale changes in many of the industry's most basic business practices. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Is Health Care Making You Better--or Dead? Today's American health care system is set up structurally to reward the major players - hospitals, health insurers, and lawmakers - while short-changing patients and taxpayers. |
BusinessWeek
May 3, 2004
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Weaker Vital Signs At Hospitals The number of patients in default on their bills is off the charts |
The Motley Fool
March 7, 2008
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Insurers' Tarnished Reputations Shine Find out which ones rank lowest and why it doesn't matter. |
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July 17, 2006
Querna & Fischman |
Good Medical Help Close to Home Your local hospital might be just as good as any glittery big-name center. Finding out if your local hospital is up to snuff requires some homework. Here are the major factors in judging the quality of care, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue. |
Managed Care
June 2003
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Managed Care Makes It Tough For Some Hospitals To Stay Afloat True, there are other reasons the facilities have closed, but insurers' payment rates stand out. Is it better that some are history? |
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March 28, 2005
Mullaney & Weintraub |
The Digital Hospital Information technology saves lives and money at one medical center, perhaps becoming the future of health care. |
Managed Care
September 2001
Bob Carlson |
Plan-Provider Posturing Draws State Regulators' Ire Network instability is what happens when providers and health plans part company, or threaten to. Lately, many ugly rifts have been the result of contract disputes, invariably conducted in public... |
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In Asia, Public Health Care Gets Less Public Health-care policymakers in Asia are encouraging more affluent Asians to use private hospitals and their own funds. |
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Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals. |
Nursing Management
April 2009
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Profits, Payers, and Patients: Responding to Changes Profit is necessary for hospitals to fulfill their missions, invest in expansion and new technologies, and reinvest in existing patient care infrastructures. Profitability is the work of the financial team and the clinical team to produce the hospital's desired financial outcome. |
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Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices. |
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The Motley Fool
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Health Insurer Lets Outsiders Decide Aetna announces that it'll allow customers with individual health plans to ask for an independent external review before Aetna cancels their policy. |
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May 2005
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Hospitals May See Plans as Their New Confidant Not only can health plans pay for performance, they can offer a mechanism for confidential discussions of mistakes. |
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March 2005
MargaretAnn Cross |
Does Your Managed Medicare Plan Have Enough Geriatricians? There aren't enough geriatricians to go around, but judicious use of these specialists can still do a lot for an aged population. |
AFP eWire
May 31, 2005 |
U.S. Finance Committee Turns Its Attention to Hospitals Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, requested detailed information from the nation's largest nonprofit hospitals to account for their charitable activities and validate the tax-exempt status they receive. |
