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Health Maintenance Organizations
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Seniors Seethe at Medifarce Nov 22, 2005
The options include relatively comprehensive Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and “stand-alone� drugs-only plans (large areas of the country are not ...
- NYC Independent Media Center,
HMOs' profits rise as enrollment declines Nov 21, 2005
By GUY BOULTON. Health maintenance organizations overall are posting record profits at a time when the number of people they insure steadily declines. ...
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription),
Generic Forms of Janssen's Risperdal and Pfizer's Geodon Not ... Nov 22, 2005
...research report Antipsychotics: Current Prescription Patterns and the Impact of Patent Expiries also finds that many health maintenance organizations will no ...
- PR Newswire (press release),
Health costs rising faster than average Nov 20, 2005
...''Massachusetts has historically been an HMO state," Kilmartin said, referring to health maintenance organizations, ''and the HMOs provide a richer benefit ...
- Boston Globe,
Hikes in health benefits costs slow Nov 20, 2005
...of health plan choices. A smaller number of employees are being covered by health maintenance organizations (HMOs). The two most ...
- The Union Leader,
More care costs shifted to workers Nov 20, 2005
The popularity of more restrictive health-maintenance organizations continues to shrink. This year, just a quarter of employees are covered by HMOs. ...
- Richmond Times Dispatch,
Moving Medicaid program to managed care won't affect maternity ... Nov 21, 2005
...more than 2.1 million low-income, elderly and disabled residents in Florida's Medicaid program into state-supervised health maintenance organizations and other ...
- Stuart News (subscription),
HMOs are not Medicaid solution Nov 21, 2005
Forcing Medicaid clients into health maintenance organizations is the wrong answer. Administrative costs alone are often three times state-run Medicaid. ...
- Sun-Sentinel.com,
Ligand Announces Preliminary Revenue Estimates For Third Quarter ... Nov 18, 2005
...entered into in late 2003 and early 2004 with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), group purchasing organizations (GPOs) and health maintenance organizations (HMOs ...
- Business Wire (press release),
Experts: Picking Medicare drug plan takes time Nov 16, 2005
It’s intended to bring more choice to Medicare by offering a variety of private plans — mostly health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred ...
- Mooresville / Decatur Times,
Number of caesarean sections reaches record high in the US Nov 16, 2005
The trend temporarily reversed in the early 1990s, partly because health maintenance organizations pressured doctors to curtail unnecessary procedures. ...
- Boston Globe,
Kenneth Arrow selected as National Medal of Science winner Nov 15, 2005
The subsequent establishment of health maintenance organizations, or HMOs, attempted to overcome this overuse of insurance, called "moral hazard," by having ...
- Stanford Report
Seniors get advice on Rx program Nov 17, 2005
Sarkis said people with Medicare Health Maintenance Organizations such as Blue Care 65 will need to select one of two plans they will offer covering both ...
- Fall River Herald News,
Understanding Medicare Part D: Free Short Seminars at Six ... Nov 10, 2005
Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs), and stand-alone prescription drug programs will all offer plans that need ...
- Market Wire (press release)
HTP Co-Founder Richards to Address WEDI 2005 Fall Conference ... Nov 14, 2005
...years of experience in information systems focused on healthcare industry systems, health insurance systems and health maintenance organizations software and ...
- Business Wire (press release),
Medicare drug craze Nov 19, 2005
Many advantage plans are health maintenance organizations, which prohibit you from going to doctors or hospitals outside the system. ...
- Athens Banner-Herald (subscription),
Medical groups, lawmakers urge tougher malpractice law Nov 8, 2005
A 1987 law was meant to require commercial insurers and health maintenance organizations to submit negligence claims against their doctors. ...
- OregonLive.com,
Aetna gets lowest rating from area physicians Nov 18, 2005
Dr. Mohan Dhillon gave that assessment as the agency released the results of its annual survey of the best and worst health maintenance organizations to deal ...
- Press & Sun-Bulletin,
A better health plan for state employees Nov 13, 2005
Between the mid-1980s and throughout the 1990s, the state health plan did offer multiple plan options, including health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and ...
- News & Observer,
Answers to key drug-plan questions Nov 13, 2005
6. If you like health maintenance organizations, they offer more drug coverage for less money, but you have to take their doctors, hospitals and rules. ...
- Sun-Sentinel.com,
Uncertain prognosis Nov 9, 2005
And health plans and doctors' groups are struggling to adapt to the resulting whirlwind shift away from health-maintenance organizations toward other kinds of ...
- Sacramento Bee,
Health costs rebounding onto workers Nov 13, 2005
Rather than health maintenance organizations, in which workers pay a small, fixed co-payment for services, more companies are switching to preferred provider ...
- The Coloradoan,
Health care chores loom as new year nears Nov 9, 2005
...is time-consuming and possibly confusing, given the variety of plans and choices within the plans: HSAs, health maintenance organizations, preferred provider ...
- York Dispatch,
Companies should weigh health options with care Nov 14, 2005
...can be a daunting and confusing process, given the variety of plans and choices within the plans: HSAs, health maintenance organizations, preferred provider ...
- Louisville Courier-Journal,
TIP DU JOUR: Choosing health plan Nov 11, 2005
...specialists. Health maintenance organizations offer predictability and ease of paying and usually cover more preventive care. But ...
- Cherry Hill Courier Post,
Medicare milestones Nov 13, 2005
1973 - The HMO Act provided for start-up grants and loans for the development of health maintenance organizations (HMOs); HMOs meeting federal standards ...
- Portsmouth Herald News,
HMO gives care south of border Nov 9, 2005
In Texas, legislators explored the possibility of allowing health maintenance organizations to operate on both sides of the border. ...
- Record-Searchlight (subscription),
As UAW weighs benefit cuts, retirees say security hangs in the ... Nov 8, 2005
Retirees enrolled in HMOs (health maintenance organizations) or PPOs (preferred provider organizations) would also see some increased costs, according to a UAW ...
- Shreveport Times,
Sierra Receives Notice of Intent to Award Nevada Medicaid Contract Nov 10, 2005
Sierra Health Services Inc., based in Las Vegas, is a diversified healthcare services company that operates health maintenance organizations, indemnity insurers ...
- Business Wire (press release),
Drug Plan Enrollment Opens Amid Confusion Nov 15, 2005
The managed care plans, health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations, or HMO's and PPO's, cover the full range of Medicare services ...
- New York Times,
So what's the advantage with Medicare Advantage? Nov 13, 2005
...plans will in 2006 include regional preferred provider organizations, PPOs — plus private fee-for-service plans and health maintenance organizations, HMOs. ...
- Daily Review Online,
Medicare drug signup starts today Nov 14, 2005
...provide coverage to some beneficiaries. These may be health maintenance organizations or preferred provider networks. Part D: The new ...
- DetNews.com,
Health insurance: A fading benefit Nov 13, 2005
...plans, said Phil Dougherty, deputy director of the Wisconsin Association of Health Plans, which represents the state's health maintenance organizations or HMOs ...
- Wisconsin State Journal,
Medicare and drugs: Seniors find confusion; experts say don’t ... Nov 13, 2005
At least two drug plans must be offered in every region nationwide. Most plans will be offered by insurance companies or health maintenance organizations. ...
- LaCrosse Tribune,
Down cycle for HMOs Nov 14, 2005
In addition, the number of people enrolled in health maintenance organizations continued its downward trend last year, according to a new report. ...
- MSNBC
RSS News Feeds Nov 13, 2005
12. The program will offer 279 choices -- 11 fee-for-service plans and an array of health maintenance organizations -- next year. ...
- Washington Post,
Medicare drug plans abound Nov 14, 2005
...$8.62 to $65.88. The health maintenance organizations are offering the prescription benefit as part of a broader package. What is ...
- Denver Post,
Helping uninsured could drive up prices for those with coverage Nov 9, 2005
But the state's health maintenance organizations may then expand similar programs, making them more attractive to employers who have had to deal with five ...
- Salem News,
HMO or PPO? Get in the know Nov 7, 2005
HMO - Health maintenance organizations are a health care system that assumes or shares the financial risks and the delivery risks associated with providing ...
- San Angelo Standard-Times,
GM health care specifics emerge Nov 3, 2005
Retirees in health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations would pay some of the same charges that those covered by the traditional ...
- Detroit Free Press,
The Best Plan For You Is... Nov 13, 2005
They range from managed-care health maintenance organizations (HMOs) which generally offer the lowest premiums to nationwide/worldwide coverage fee-for-service ...
- FederalNewsRadio.com
NMHC Enhances Customer Satisfaction Focus, Names Nathan J. Schultz ... Nov 14, 2005
...home delivery pharmacy), and Ascend (specialty pharmacy solutions), providing services to corporations, unions, health maintenance organizations, third-party ...
- Genetic Engineering News,
Election-year politics likely to dominate Lansing agenda Nov 13, 2005
Tom George, R-Texas Township, would require insurers, health-maintenance organizations and nonprofit health care corporations to offer wellness coverage that ...
- Crain's Detroit Business (subscription),
Right decision can save money Nov 15, 2005
They include fee-for-service plans, which allow you to pick your doctors and the hospital you wish to use; health maintenance organizations, which practice ...
- Washington Times,
Seniors have new choices in Medicare drug benefits Nov 14, 2005
Those enrolled in Medicare health maintenance organizations in Volusia and Flagler counties also have choices with the number varying by HMO. ...
- Daytona Beach News-Journal,
Good grades for area health insurers Oct 26, 2005
About 95 percent of Independent Health's enrollment is in health maintenance organizations; the balance is in point-of-service options, according to Weiss. ...
- Buffalo Business First,
Trickle-down effect Oct 24, 2005
Conventional coverage such as health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs) are still the dominant plan types. ...
- Wilkes Barre Times-Leader,
Milliman 2005 Group Health Insurance Survey Sees Slowing of ... Oct 24, 2005
24 /PRNewswire/ -- Results from Milliman's fourteenth annual survey of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs ...
- PR Newswire (press release),
Help is available for senior citizens to navigate byzantine ... Nov 2, 2005
Drug benefits also are offered through Medicare Advantage Plans, generally offered through Health Maintenance Organizations or Preferred Provider Organizations ...
- Asheville Citizen-Times,
Switch to managed care nears for Ohio Oct 23, 2005
He said the companies administering the services before were generally smaller hospital-based health maintenance organizations. ...
- Youngstown Vindicator,
Briefs: Eagles raise $4,000 for holiday program Nov 11, 2005
Beneficiaries of other health maintenance organizations can contact their providers to determine where flu vaccinations are covered under their plans. ...
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
News For Your Web Site Nov 1, 2005
Health care coverage is available through HMOs (health maintenance organizations), PPOs (preferred provider organizations) and EPOs (exclusive provider ...
- dBusinessNews Los Angeles (press release),
Healthy options Nov 6, 2005
Selections in medical coverage include: health maintenance organizations, point of service plans, preferred provider organizations and exclusive provider ...
- Poughkeepsie Journal,
Myths about hospice Nov 14, 2005
However, Medicare beneficiaries pay little or nothing for hospice, and most insurance plans, health maintenance organizations and managed care plans include ...
- Ironwood Daily Globe,
Cost of books outrageous Oct 27, 2005
Such a system exists in the health care industry in the form of health maintenance organizations, where doctors prescribe drugs under a budget, avoiding brand ...
- New Hampshire (subscription),
Down cycle for HMOs Nov 14, 2005
In addition, the number of people enrolled in health maintenance organizations continued its downward trend last year, according to a new report. ...
- Milwaukee Business Journal,
Employers rethink health care Oct 30, 2005
Conventional coverage such as preferred provider and health maintenance organizations are still the most common form of health insurance. ...
- Salt Lake Tribune,
Firms weigh health benefits Oct 30, 2005
...and possibly confusing, given the variety of plans and choices within the plans: health savings accounts, health maintenance organizations, preferred provider ...
- Press-Enterprise (subscription),
Gird for higher health costs Oct 27, 2005
Workers who once had the choice of several health-maintenance organizations may have just one HMO. Some no longer offer an HMO. ...
- Tallahassee.com,
Benefits thin, but costs rise Oct 24, 2005
Employers also are reducing the number of health maintenance organizations they offer, while employees who opted for preferred provider organizations may see ...
- Contra Costa Times,
Testimony from Hearing on South Carolina Medicaid Waiver Oct 28, 2005
Looking at the state as a whole, only 6.1 percent of all South Carolina residents were enrolled in health maintenance organizations in 2004. ...
- U.S. Newswire (press release),
Sierra Reports 2005 3rd Quarter Earnings of $0.87 Per Diluted ... Oct 24, 2005
Health Services Inc., based in Las Vegas, is a diversified health care services company that operates health maintenance organizations, indemnity insurers ...
- Business Wire (press release),
Medicare Part D: 'Ideal' plan could be hard to find Nov 5, 2005
Companies also will sell prescription drug plans coupled with Medicare Advantage plans -- Medicare health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred ...
- Pittsburgh Post Gazette,
Todays special: More choices Oct 29, 2005
While health maintenance organizations have for years covered employees for less than preferred provider organizations, which offer broader coverage, HMOs ...
- Athens Banner-Herald (subscription),
How to lower the cost of drugs Oct 24, 2005
Better-off Californians insured through a range of health plans, including health maintenance organizations such as Kaiser Permanente, also receive drugs ...
- San Francisco Chronicle,
GRIPA will undergo big changes soon Nov 6, 2005
GRIPA will also pursue different kinds of contracts, such as "fee for service" contracts for doctors with local health maintenance organizations, among others. ...
- Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,
Last call for Crain’s nonprofit contest Oct 23, 2005
Previous first-place winners are not eligible; neither are hospitals, health-maintenance organizations, medical clinics, business and professional organizations ...
- Crain's Detroit Business (subscription),
Health care plan could drive up deductibles Nov 6, 2005
The state's health maintenance organizations may then expand similar programs, attractive to employers who have had to deal with five consecutive years of ...
- Boston Globe,
Long walk is call for health care for all Oct 29, 2005
Many favor individual health savings accounts, another alternative to the current US system of private insurance and health maintenance organizations that is ...
- Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),
State health agency gets new chief Nov 7, 2005
Medows will enter a hectic scene at the agency, which is in the midst of moving 1.2 million Medicaid recipients into health maintenance organizations in phases ...
- MSNBC
Ca. health plans send patients to Mexico Nov 6, 2005
Texas physicians successfully fought off legislation that would have allowed health maintenance organizations to operate on both sides of the border, arguing ...
- Science Daily (press release)
LIFELONG HEALTH : Doctor prescribes study before choosing Rx plan Oct 30, 2005
Medicare Advantage plans are offered by health maintenance organizations (HMO) or private insurance companies. The premium will be about $30 monthly. ...
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription),
Get health insurance off sick list, candidates say Nov 1, 2005
...the shift from traditional indemnity programs to preferred provider programs to true managed care programs like health maintenance organizations (HMOs), all of ...
- Dailyrecord.com,
THE DANGER OF CONSUMER-DRIVEN HEALTH CARE. Oct 30, 2005
In the 1990s, this mindset led employers to switch their workers into health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other forms of managed care. ...
- New Republic,
State health care plan leaves gaps Nov 4, 2005
...state workers and their dependents. Workers have several options, including health maintenance organizations. They also can choose ...
- Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription),
Report: State To Cut Senior Health Premium Payment Nov 4, 2005
...obtained by the Tribune, affected seniors will have to pay premiums of up to $70 a month if they want to remain in their health maintenance organizations. ...
- CBS 5,
WOOD RIVER HEALTH CHIEF BOWING OUT Oct 24, 2005
Balasco was named interim chief executive officer of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island - one of the state's leading health maintenance organizations. ...
- Westerly Sun,
Medicaid shift may save Ill. $57M Oct 24, 2005
Anne Marie Murphy, the state’s Medicaid director, distinguished between the PCCM model and managed care in the style of health maintenance organizations. ...
- Rockford Register Star,
Medicare-for-All would save money and cover everyone Nov 6, 2005
Health maintenance organizations, touted as a cure, became a disease. Many HMOs collapsed, shriveled or bugged out, stranding their participants. ...
- Centre Daily Times,
Independent Care CEO exudes passion Nov 7, 2005
At 28, she ran for state Assembly against a 20-year incumbent with a platform of educating people about then-new health maintenance organizations. ...
- Milwaukee Business Journal,
State employees show more interest in insurance options Oct 28, 2005
Attendance at "benefit fairs" put on by health maintenance organizations and companies offering specialized supplemental insurance policies were also up ...
- Tallahassee.com,
AHCA eases oxygen refill requirements Oct 31, 2005
Florida's $14 billion Medicaid program, licenses and regulates more than 32,000 health care facilities and 30 health maintenance organizations, and publishes ...
- Tampa Bay Business Journal,
Certified Nurse Midwife profession (CNM) Oct 26, 2005
...including private outpatient practices (either by themselves or in collaboration with a physician), health maintenance organizations, hospitals, health ...
- drkoop.com
NMHC Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2006 Results; Continued ... Nov 3, 2005
...pharmacy solutions), and Integrail (health information solutions), providing services to corporations, unions, health maintenance organizations, third-party ...
- Business Wire (press release),
Drug Discount Peddlers Oct 26, 2005
...have helped employer drug programs fit nicely into managed-care plans, bringing the co-payment features typical of health maintenance organizations into the ...
- CFO.com Magazine,
Changes mean savings, Medicare chief tells AARP Oct 27, 2005
...pay less to participate in Medicare Advantage, the insurance program that lowers costs by providing service through health-maintenance organizations and other ...
- Charleston Gazette,
ENH to appeal judge's order to sell hospital Oct 27, 2005
The commission has contended certain health maintenance organizations agreed to ENH's post-merger price hikes knowing they would be unable to market health ...
- Pioneer Press Online,
News Summary Oct 24, 2005
...payer software system to Geisinger Health Plan, of Danville, Pa., one of the country’s largest nonprofit rural health maintenance organizations, which will ...
- Daily Record (subscription),
FDA Considers Web to Study Safe Prescribing Nov 4, 2005
These methods include surveys of subpopulations in health maintenance organizations and compiling complaints that are spontaneously reported to the agency. ...
- ExtremeNano,
AM Best ponders Nationwide cut Oct 28, 2005
19, covers commercial or residential property, automobile, health, life, health maintenance organizations and continuing care retirement centers in 20 counties ...
- St. Petersburg Times,
EDITORIAL: Fill-in-the-blanks reform Oct 26, 2005
A new Florida reform that would pay privately run health maintenance organizations to care for more than 2 million recipients received a serious blow Monday ...
- Fort Wayne News Sentinel,
Boomers love spas for skin Nov 4, 2005
..."For them, there is no big paperwork, no health maintenance organizations. And they are dealing with healthy people who want to stay healthy and well.". ...
- Arizona Republic,
Fitch Publishes New Quantitative US Property/Casualty Insurance ... Nov 3, 2005
Prior to that initiative, Fitch began assigning Q-IFS ratings to US health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in 2002 and currently rates 272 HMOs. ...
- Business Wire (press release),
Tax Notes: BIR’s revised VAT regulations Oct 24, 2005
5. Pre-need companies and health maintenance organizations (HMOs)-It was reiterated that pre-need companies and HMOs shall be subject to VAT on their premium ...
- Sun Star,
Which is best-managed nonprofit? 03 Oct 2005
Previous first-place winners are not eligible; neither are hospitals, health-maintenance organizations, medical clinics, business and professional organizations ...
- Crain's Detroit Business (subscription),
If your health insurer denies your claim, you can appeal--and you ... Oct 1, 2005
Almost 30 percent of those belonging to health maintenance organizations and nearly 25 percent of those in preferred provider organizations, another kind of ...
- U.S. News & World Report
Relief costs may force hard decisions Oct 1, 2005
...he termed a $10 billion "slush fund"- a stabilization fund, the Health and Human Service Department says - for health maintenance organizations providing health ...
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
How Congress can cut spending Oct 2, 2005
Excise all the pork from the transportation bill. Delete the pending financial increases to money-rich health maintenance organizations. ...
- Sun-Sentinel.com,
Just what the professor ordered Sep 25, 2005
Health maintenance organizations are often criticized for being too stingy, but let's not forget that they've played an important role in containing health ...
- Fort Worth Star Telegram,
RxHub Advances Electronic Prescribing Through Its Standards ... Sep 27, 2005
...companies and pharmacists, database management organizations, federal and state agencies, health insurers, health maintenance organizations, mail service ...
- PR Newswire (press release),
Health-care costs for colleges and their employees rose by 10% ... Sep 27, 2005
About half offer plans run by health-maintenance organizations or exclusive-provider organizations, and about one in four offers major-medical plans, point-of ...
- Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Seniors facing lots of benefits choices Oct 1, 2005
BY JOHN DORSCHNER jdorschner@herald.com Starting today, 43 new Medicare drug plans and about two dozen health maintenance organizations will begin bombarding ...
- Scoopt.org,
Stocks to Watch Sep 26, 2005
...provider said the subpoena seeks various documents, including those related to its relationship with health maintenance organizations, independent physician ...
- MarketWatch
Quest Diagnostics subpoenaed by US office Sep 26, 2005
...the US Department of Health and Human Services for documents related to the company's relationship with health maintenance organizations, independent physician ...
- Reuters
Sierra Health Services Announces Participation in Medicare ... Sep 26, 2005
Health Services Inc., based in Las Vegas, is a diversified health care services company that operates health maintenance organizations, indemnity insurers ...
- Business Wire (press release),
Dizzying host of firms to offer Medicare drug benefit in NJ Sep 23, 2005
In addition, three Health Maintenance Organizations and one Preferred Provider Organization have been authorized to offer Medicare drug coverage in New Jersey ...
- Newark Star Ledger,
17 approved for Medicare drug coverage Sep 23, 2005
Most Medicare-backed health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations will add drug coverage to their health plans, usually for a monthly ...
- Columbus Business First,
Drug groups set for seniors Sep 24, 2005
The 19 Medicare Advantage plans, which can be health maintenance organizations or preferred provider organizations, will be available regionally. ...
- San Francisco Chronicle,
20 to offer senior drug plans Sep 24, 2005
In addition, 19 groups in the state are offering Medicare Advantage plans - government-subsidized health maintenance organizations or preferred provider ...
- Newsday,
Health Care Smaller hike in health premiums still too high Sep 23, 2005
Preferred provider organization enrollment was more popular than health maintenance organizations in 2005, increasing 6 percentage points to 61 percent. ...
- In Business Las Vegas,
Many Insurers Set to Offer New Medicare Drug Plans Sep 23, 2005
In most states, Medicare beneficiaries can also get drug coverage by joining health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations or other ...
- New York Times,
Seniors to face array of drug plans in region Sep 23, 2005
...even greater because beneficiaries also may get drug coverage through Medicare Advantage Plans, which operate like health maintenance organizations and offer ...
- Newsday,
: LogistiCare Wins Statewide Medicaid NET Contract for Virginia Sep 22, 2005
...now handle more than 4 million trips annually for nearly a half-million eligible Medicaid members, which includes several health maintenance organizations. ...
- NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)
Revisit increases for Social Security Sep 18, 2005
...get swallowed up by increases in Medicare insurance premiums, prescription drug costs and increased co-payments to doctors and health maintenance organizations ...
- Sun-Sentinel.com,
Qualms arise over Medicare benefits Sep 24, 2005
...coverage. Some analysts predict that health maintenance organizations will be able to deliver the most comprehensive benefits. The ...
- Contra Costa Times,
Skyscape Medical Reference Software for PDAs & Smartphones ... Sep 21, 2005
ASHP is the 30,000-member national professional association that represents pharmacists who practice in hospitals, health maintenance organizations, long-term ...
- PR Newswire (press release),
Regional HMOs higher premiums based on services Sep 22, 2005
...independent benefit advisory firms across the country, employers in the Northeast offer a far higher percentage of health maintenance organizations and point-of ...
- Buffalo Business First,
Fewer companies offering health benefits as costs rise Sep 15, 2005
Such organizations direct patients to a core group of doctors, but are less restrictive than traditional health maintenance organizations, which covered 21 ...
- Boston Globe,
OPM Postpones New Dental-Vision Benefits Sep 19, 2005
But regional insurance companies faulted the program, raising concerns about overhead costs, the role of health maintenance organizations, the maximum benefit ...
- Washington Post,
US stocks edge down as storm still focus Sep 23, 2005
...(AA.N: Quote, Profile, Research), a Dow component, weighed on the market. Shares of health maintenance organizations, including Aetna Inc. ...
- Reuters
US stocks edge higher as Rita weakens, oil slides Sep 23, 2005
The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index was up 9.38 points, or 0.44 percent, at 2,120.41. Shares of health maintenance organizations, including Aetna Inc. ...
- Reuters
US stocks inch higher as Rita weakens; Alcoa slides Sep 23, 2005
...average. Shares of health maintenance organizations, including Aetna Inc. (AET.N: Quote, Profile, Research), UnitedHealth Group Inc. ...
- Reuters.uk,
Stocks edge down as storm still focus Sep 23, 2005
...a Dow component, weighed on the market. Shares of health maintenance organizations, including Aetna Inc. , UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Wellpoint Inc. ...
- ABC News
Stocks edge higher as Rita weakens Sep 23, 2005
...at 2,120.41. Shares of health maintenance organizations, including Aetna Inc. , UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Wellpoint Inc. rose ...
- ABC News
Stocks inch higher as Rita weakens Sep 23, 2005
Shares of health maintenance organizations, including Aetna Inc. (NYSE:AET - news), UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE:UNH - news) and Wellpoint Inc. ...
- Leading The Charge,
HMO incentives fail to curb drug costs:- Sep 19, 2005
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, surveyed 36 physician groups and health maintenance organizations in four cities. ...
- Webindia123,
9-6 11:30 AM News Update - More Help From NY On Way for Hurricane ... Sep 6, 2005
The New York Post reports today that two-thirds of the state's health maintenance organizations have increased premiums, some by as much as 25 percent. ...
- Newswatch 50,
The VA and Medicare HMOs — Complementary or Redundant? Sep 24, 2005
...over the age of 65 years may be eligible to enroll in both the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system and Medicare health maintenance organizations (HMOs). ...
- New England Journal of Medicine (subscription),
Corzine's Senate voting record is reliably liberal Sep 18, 2005
Voted for expansion of patients' rights in dealing with insurers and health maintenance organizations (Passed 59-36 on June 29, 2001). ...
- Cherry Hill Courier Post,
Fitch Publishes New Quantitative US Property/Casualty Insurance ... Sep 22, 2005
Prior to that initiative, Fitch began assigning Q-IFS ratings to US health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in 2002 and currently rates 274 HMOs. ...
- Business Wire (press release),
Medicare drug benefits to cost less, President says Sep 8, 2005
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans with prescription drug coverage, including both health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations ...
- CCH
Supreme Court isn'ta movie set Sep 22, 2005
...use union dues for political purposes, but this is discriminatory because it does not make the same requirement for health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and ...
- San Jose Mercury News,
Customerization" is undermining American education, religion ... Sep 20, 2005
..."If anything," he said, "concepts such as managed care, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and the privatization of hospitals have created more problems ...
- Church Executive Magazine,
Health care costs rise slowly Sep 14, 2005
Health maintenance organizations remain the cheapest health plans, but enrollment in HMOs fell to 21 percent of covered workers. ...
- Fort Worth Star Telegram,
GAO: COMPETITION INFLUENCES FEDS’ HEALTH CARE COSTS Sep 15, 2005
These plans included national preferred provider organizations and health maintenance organizations. OPM spent more than $21 billion in 2004 on the FEHBP. ...
- FedNews-Online,
Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General, US Department of Health and ... Sep 13, 2005
...physicians, hospitals and health systems, manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and diagnostics, health maintenance organizations, health insurers ...
- PR Newswire (press release),
Roses & Thistles Sep 4, 2005
It's up to the patients to take care of themselves and work with the doctors to monitor their conditions. Remember health maintenance organizations? ...
- DesMoinesRegister.com,
State leads nation in physician costs Sep 14, 2005
...said, higher-priced areas tended to share two characteristics: less competition among providers, and less market clout for health maintenance organizations. ...
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
Getting quality care from an HMO often a coin flip Sep 15, 2005
Millions of Californians in health maintenance organizations often have less than a "50-50" chance of getting care that meets national standards in everything ...
- OCRegister (subscription),
Health Insurance Costs to Rise 6.6% for Federal Workers Sep 15, 2005
Americans. For 2006, FEHBP will offer 279 options, including Blue Cross and Blue Shield and health maintenance organizations. As ...
- Washington Post,
Health care premiums jump 9%, fewer workers covered Sep 14, 2005
The average annual premium for a family of four in popular health maintenance organizations, known as HMOs, hit $10,880 -- more than the total wages for a ...
- San Jose Mercury News,
Wisconsin grapples with health-care cost Sep 16, 2005
...resulted from weak competition -- more beds controlled by few health-care providers -- and the lack of ability of Health Maintenance Organizations to pay ...
- Duluth News Tribune,
SSM Health Care Signs Multi-Million Dollar Contract with Premier Sep 6, 2005
SSMHC also owns an interest in Premier Medical Insurance Group Inc., one of Wisconsin's largest health maintenance organizations. ...
- Carolina Newswire (press release),
UnitedHealthcare gets $55 million state health contract Sep 1, 2005
They can choose the preferred provider organization (PPO), one of four health maintenance organizations (HMO) or one of two different consumer-driven health ...
- Atlanta Business Chronicle,
Hurricane evacuees to receive health help from AHCA Sep 14, 2005
Florida's $15 billion Medicaid program, licenses and regulates more than 32,000 health care facilities and 30 health maintenance organizations, and publishes ...
- Jacksonville Business Journal,
Rates Continue to Rise for Health Insurance Sep 5, 2005
The New York Post reports Monday that two-thirds of the state's health maintenance organizations have increased premiums -- some by as much as 25 percent. ...
- WGRZ-TV,
Health savings accounts worth checking out Sep 12, 2005
...month, the state wants employees to critically examine their three major options - the existing group policy and the health-maintenance organizations, plus the ...
- Tallahassee.com,
New players revive local Medicare HMO market Sep 13, 2005
Two Medicare health maintenance organizations have entered the Houston market several years after a mass exodus of providers that was blamed on red tape and ...
- MSNBC
Insurance costs outpace inflation Sep 14, 2005
Health-maintenance organizations, or HMOs, although cheaper at $10,456 for a family (divided $7,852 and $2,604 between employer and worker), showed a decline ...
- Richmond Times Dispatch,
Premium for Basic Medicare Increasing 13% Next Year Sep 16, 2005
Higher Medicare payments to health maintenance organizations and other private plans are also contributing to the higher premiums. ...
- New York Times,
Plan jells for market-based Medicaid services Sep 1, 2005
...plans. A handful of private health-maintenance organizations already doing business in South Florida are expected to participate. ...
- Orlando Sentinel,
Get to bottom of high prices Sep 16, 2005
Accountability Office study points to a cause - lack of competition among providers and less market clout by health maintenance organizations - it doesn't tell ...
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
Spitzer presses HMOs to step up lead poisoning screening Sep 5, 2005
ALBANY, NY -- Many 1-year-olds in New York may not be getting tested for lead poisoning and health maintenance organizations need to step up their screening ...
- Newsday,
NMHC Reports Preliminary Unaudited Fiscal 2005 Results Showing ... Sep 12, 2005
...home delivery pharmacy), and Ascend (specialty pharmacy solutions), providing services to corporations, unions, health maintenance organizations, third-party ...
- Business Wire (press release),
DAILY DIGEST Sep 14, 2005
California's health maintenance organizations are doing a better job managing chronic illnesses but still fall short in preventive care, according to a report ...
- San Francisco Chronicle,
Spitzer presses HMOs to step up lead poisoning screening Sep 6, 2005
ALBANY, NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer says health maintenance organizations need to do more screening for lead poisoning in children. ...
- WSTM-TV,
Spitzer Presses HMOs To Step Up Lead Poisoning Screening Sep 6, 2005
...(Albany, NY) AP 09/06/05 -- New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer says health maintenance organizations need to do more screening for lead poisoning in ...
- 13WHAM-TV,
SPITZER RAPS HMOS ON LEAD TESTS Sep 6, 2005
September 6, 2005 -- ALBANY — Many 1-year-olds in New York state are not being tested for lead poisoning, and health-maintenance organizations must step up ...
- New York Post,
No salvation for the non-useful Sep 11, 2005
...gaps in achievements of pupils from different regions and economic classes; in the discrimination that the state health maintenance organizations practice (but ...
- Ha'aretz (subscription),
Aetna to offer Medicare plan in 2 Ariz. counties Sep 7, 2005
Medicare in 2006. It also increased Medicare payments to health maintenance organizations and other private health plans. By next ...
- Arizona Republic,
State examines a 'quiet industry' Sep 14, 2005
...here.". The big three health maintenance organizations are Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, Medica and HealthPartners. Other ...
- Pioneer Press,
Second Vioxx Trial May Be “Do or Die� for Merck Sep 5, 2005
Most Vioxx purchases were made through health plans run by insurance companies and health maintenance organizations and the union's case could therefore ...
- Newsinferno.com,
Report: HMOs need improvement Sep 14, 2005
California's health maintenance organizations have improved the quality of care for their plan members but still have room to improve, according to an annual ...
- San Diego Union Tribune,
Manager promotes Aetna, Apple Sep 13, 2005
Its health care segment accounted for about 90% of revenue last year through its health maintenance organizations, point-of-service and preferred provider ...
- MSN Money
Class Action Could Mean Billion-Dollar Exposure for Merck Sep 2, 2005
Inc. The majority of Vioxx purchases were through plans run by insurance companies and health maintenance organizations. Unlike ...
- New York Law Journal,
9-6 9:30 AM News Update - State Fair Ends its 12-Day Run Sep 6, 2005
...(Associated Press). Attorney General Eliot Spitzer says health maintenance organizations need to do more screening for lead poisoning in children. ...
- Newswatch 50,
Dix begins campaign for 1st District seat Sep 13, 2005
He said the nation needs to find a way to curb health care costs, and limit the role of health maintenance organizations in making medical decisions. ...
- Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier,
Spitzer Pushing For Closer Monintoring Of Lead Levels In Toddlers Sep 6, 2005
...proper screening. The report also says health maintenance organizations need to step up their screening efforts. Spitzer's office ...
- NY1,
La Crosse Has Highest Doctor Prices in Country Sep 15, 2005
The report says higher-priced areas tend to have less competition among providers and less market strength for health maintenance organizations. ...
- WXOW,
A family affair/Thomas, Vera and Sebastian Sep 8, 2005
...bringing medicines. She is familiar with all the Kupat Holim health maintenance organizations in Metropolitan Tel Aviv. "Try me.". Test ...
- Ha'aretz (subscription),
Maxor, Firstcare strike deal Sep 13, 2005
Mid-2007, Firstcare plans to solicit bids for pharmacy benefit management services for its health maintenance organizations and PPO products, Freeman said. ...
- Amarillo.com (subscription),
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