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R Haugh
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Online purchasing. Data: a golden egg.
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Information technology. Keep up--or else.
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Supply capitation. Proving ground.
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Hospital construction. Building booming.
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The assault on your financials.
Hospital executives are confronting what may be unprecedented pressure on their bottom lines as forces converge from all directions: Medicare cuts brought on by the Balanced Budget Amendment, slow pays and denial of claims by managed care plans, the staggering cost of new technology, and big increases in pharmaceutical costs.
Confronting HIPAA.
UNLABELLED: Just when you thought it was safe to come out after Y2K, along comes the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act, which--if you're not there yet--will force you head first into the electronic age. HIPAA comes with a big price tag, but it may save you money in the long run by standardizing data. BOTTOM LINE: Compliance is not an option.
Consolidation. Trauma trouble.
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Off target.
Leave it to the market. It's our collective corrective, the American way of problem-solving. So it's no surprise that we looked to the market to stop runaway health care costs. For awhile, it seemed to work. Medicare HMOs, physician practice management, risk contracting, and other innovations boomed. Then came the setbacks, exposing health care's complexities and contradictions--and reminding us that nothing escapes market discipline.
Staffing. Docs on demand.
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Treatment. The fix for a fixation.
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Out there care. There's strength in strange: Lifeguard, the HMO that doesn't act like one, boasts top ratings from consumers, fat profits, and zero debt.
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Discount fallout. Hammered & nailed.
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Extractions. Chop, chop.
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Y2K ready. Supply grab?
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Deselected! A California case could forever change how HMOs and others hire and fire doctors.
Deselection--a bit of health insurance parlance capable of giving doctors a case of the shivers--may never be the same. An obscure California lawsuit, barely known outside legal circles, threatens to change the way physicians are hired and fired from provider panels. And that's making HMOs and others nervous.