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AARP's plan to endorse MCOs gets mixed reaction.(American Association of Retired Persons, managed care organizations)
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The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) plans to evaluate managed care plans. Managed care organizations will be able to sell coverage through direct mail to AARP members and will be able to advertisement the AARP endorsement for a licensing fee. Some question whether the AARP can evaluate HMOs and other managed care organizations effectively, especially since AARP staff also lobby for health care reform.
The American Association of Retired Persons could influence the enti...
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The neglected remedy: strengthening consumer voice in managed care.
The American Prospect
; Managed care seems finally to have done what health care reformers a few years ago couldn't accomplish: stir demands for more government regulation. After some health maintenance organizations cut hospital maternity stays to a maximum of 24 hours, the caption of one editorial cartoon read
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Program evaluates the quality of managed care organizations
Quality Progress
; Q-VAL, a comprehensive softwarebased managed care quality valuation program from The Segal Company, evaluates the quality of managed care organizations. According to Kenneth R. Jacobsen, senior vice president and national health care practice leader for The Segal Company, "Q-VAL focuses on issues
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Managed care organizations present new exposures for professional liability insurers
Rough Notes
; EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR INSURERS WHO UNDERSTAND THE BUSINESS; MANAGED CARE CAN BE DANGEROUS FOR THOSE WHO DON'T Managed care clearly is a concept that's here to stay. Born out of a desire to lower soaring medical care costs, the concept has gained enormous support. However, it also has run into
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Managed Care Surveys: Something to Talk About.
Newsletter-People's Medical Society
; In the past decade, more than 60 million people have enrolled in managed care plans, and more than 10, million people continue to sign up each year. Why? Because managed care organizations claim to control the rising costs of health care and keep it affordable to the average consumer. It sounds
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Special Report: HMOs Are Drilling for HEDIS Data @ti#Managed care organizations rely on information technology for gathering and reporting increasingly complex performance data.
Health Data Management
; Many consumers who are enrolled in a managed care plan have seen first-hand one component of the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set: a survey form that arrives in the mailbox a few weeks after visiting a doctor or a hospital. The consumer evaluates a care experience by answering
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Florida effort would let more doctors into managed care.
Business Insurance
; ORLANDO, Fla. - A skirmish in Florida over whether all providers should be allowed to contract with managed care organizations is pitting businesses against advocates of patients' and physicians' rights. The controversy centers on a proposal to allow any willing provider to belong to a managed care
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Dementia services in managed care: Issues and trends
Generations
; Over the past ten years, healthcare in the United States hs undergone rapid change. The growth of managed care health systems has been dramatic. In 1998, approximately 6.1 million Medicare recipients (16 percent) were enrolled in managed care plans, and in some states enrollment rates were much
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Governance challenges for managed care organizations
Healthcare Executive
; ... As a final challenge, governance team leaders point to the need to stay focused on the local market. "There is so much in the news lately about integration, capitation, and other changes that sometimes boards can get ahead of themselves," says Fuhs. "Take ...
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MANAGED CARE.
Health Data Management
; Solutions to Thrive On[TM] Rapid change sometimes seems to be the only constant in managed care. While managed care organizations shift shapes and sizes through mergers and alliances, their purchasers push for higher standards of care and legislators focus on ways to regulate the industry. With
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Think beyond price to sell to managed care.
Medical Marketing & Media
; Value added won't do. Learning how managed care organizations operate as businesses is the key to the development of successful marketing strategies. OUTSIDE MY WINDOW A NEW OFFICE BUILDING IS being constructed. Hour after hour, a large pile driver pounds at the tops of rigid steel beams until they
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