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Just when HMOs seemed to break the old indemnity underwriting cycle, along came last year's landslide losses. Now analysts see a more deliberate pattern shaping up: When profits soar, marketers win rate cuts. When the bottom line finally bottoms out, underwriters prevail--and rate hikes follow.
Oh, the simplicity. A new survey shows that health plans overlook a basic tool of marketing to Medicare enrollees and staying in their good graces: the phone call. When fingers do the walking, satisfaction takes a hike.
Touted as a way to shore up margins and help stabilize hospital finances, reengineering caught hold in a big way. A study released exclusively to H&HN shows hospitals that fared well after reengineering fared really well, while those that performed poorly beforehand did just as poorly afterward.
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Corporate compliance may be all about obeying the law, but few compliance officers possess a law degree. That and other findings come from a recent survey by the Hay Group, an exclusive to Hospitals & Health Networks.
If you haven't begun inoculating your information system and medical equipment against the year 2000 bug, it's time for some triage. Here's how to diagnose your most serious weaknesses for computer crashes--or worse.
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The pundits warn that health care inflation is roaring back to life, with double-digit premium hikes. Yet that ignores the power of employers to just say no, according to an analysis by KPMG Peat Marwick.
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It's a lot cheaper to develop a compliance plan than fight fraud charges. Trouble is, off-the-shelf wisdom is hard to come by. Here's sage advice from compliance pros on how to put your plan in motion.
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While some hospital chains may seem like predators, that's not Quorum's style. The Brentwood, Tenn., system prefers to win friends and hospitals by highlighting its major strength: not-for-profit management.
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