Word: hmos
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...backlash is cutting across all segments. Doctors are banding together to bargain with HMOs or even offer their own health plans, and so are some unions. Employers started the managed-care revolution by herding their workers into HMOs, but now a third of companies polled by the Washington Business Group on Health express concern that the pressure to keep costs down is hurting the quality of care their employees receive...
Whether any national legislation will result, and when, is most uncertain. The Republicans who control Congress will not buy Kennedy's bill, and Clinton's panel will not report for almost a year. But HMOs are coming under attack from so many directions that they can no longer shrug it off. They respond by citing membership-satisfaction polls and insist that those who complain "are being frightened by inflammatory language" about rare occurrences, in the words of Susan Pisano, spokeswoman for the American Association of Health Plans...
...practice in New York and Ohio, collected $172,000 in Medicare payments last year in Virginia, according to the New York Times. Like the 1996 law, the new Clinton legislation would enable federal and state officials to access such information. In addition, the new legislation would hold hospitals and HMOs accountable if they certify such a doctor. While it is hard to argue against a bill that could help save some of the billions of dollars lost to Medicaid and Medicare fraud (federal estimates range as high as $20 billion), the real test of the Clinton Administration?s determination will...
...present a balanced budget plan to Congress on February 6, he finds himself treading on ground that turned to quicksand for Newt Gingrich a year ago. Aides confirmed today that the President proposes to pare $100 billion over five years from Medicare and Medicaid by cutting reimbursements to hospitals, HMOs and doctors. Under the President's plan, spending for the two giant health care programs, which cover 75 million poor, disabled and elderly Americans, would not be allowed to grow faster than about 5 percent annually. "Clinton has to hit these big ticket items if he has any realistic chance...
Lifesaving heroics get the headlines, but there is real money to be made, particularly in the transport of a growing legion of elderly to and from hospitals, nursing homes, HMOS and other facilities, either in ambulances or in specialized vehicles known as ambulettes. It's one of the unintended consequences--and opportunities--of health-care reform: hospitals are discharging patients earlier, while others need to be shifted more frequently between care centers, boosting the need for transportation...