Word: humana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could have feasted on a banquet of meaty new drama: six full-length plays and six shorter ones, including the latest work of such luminaries as Tony Kushner, Jane Martin, David Henry Hwang, John Patrick Shanley, Anne Bogart and Craig Lucas. And you would have left the 20th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays with a subversive thought: yes, theater has a place, a reason, a future...
...festival (half of whose million-dollar annual budget is underwritten by the Humana Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Humana Inc., the Louisville-based health-care company) is not exactly a secret. "What we've tried to be," says Jon Jory, the ATL's guiding light for 27 years, "is a freshet for the American repertoire." Among the 224 new plays in the fest's 20 years are two Pulitzer Prize winners, The Gin Game and Crimes of the Heart, as well as Agnes of God, Extremities and off-Broadway's current Below the Belt. And however perilous the playwright...
...current battle over access to patients is a sobering reminder that at bookkeeping time, patients are just a source of cash. In Texas the lawsuit brought by Dr. Maidenberg and four other doctors accuses Aetna of violating their "property rights" by taking away their patients. In Florida, when the Humana insurance plan sued Dr. Ira Jacobson because the Miami family physician quit and took 170 Humana patients with him, it demanded payment of $700 a head for its lost customers. A state appeals court ruled in December 1992 that Dr. Jacobson owed nothing; after all, said the court, Humana...
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...years, he and his investment partners raised enough money to buy 38 of them, scattered from El Paso, Texas, to Miami, acquiring along the way an enviable reputation for delivering high-quality care with low operating costs. Last September, in a $4.3 billion deal, he took over the 71 Humana hospitals. Last month, with particular satisfaction, Scott changed the name of his firm to Columbia/HCA Healthcare, having just completed an $8 billion merger with his original, elusive target. In so doing he added HCA's 95 hospitals to Columbia's sprawling, 26-state chain...