Word: biblos
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According to Robert L. Biblo, president of the Health Plan. HMOs help reduce health costs by keeping people out of hospitals. They offer regular check-ups, immunization and nutritional counseling as part of the basic program for a fixed monthly fee. HMOs thus encourage members to keep a check on health problems before they become serious, Biblo said yesterday. With traditional insurance programs these preventive health measures are not covered and must be paid for by the member...
...Harvard Plan and conventional health insurance programs is that we combine the financing mechanism and the delivery system. We don't separate the two. We provide more services on an ambulatory basis. People who have the Harvard Plan don't have to worry about heavy out-of-pocket costs," Biblo said...
...health plan will move from its present Cambridge center to a new Cambridge Street facility in early January, Biblo said. He said the new center will be able to handle 40,000 members, but it will not be completely staffed until April...
...Biblo said he feels the quality of the health plan's service has not declined due to the sudden increase of patients, but waiting times for non-emergency appointments have lengthened considerably. Patients must now wait seven to eight weeks for check-ups and return visits after an illness, he said...
...Biblo said he hopes to increase the plan's staff to a level of one doctor for every 1000 patients, for he said it would reduce regular appointment waiting times to three or four weeks