Low monthly premiums tend to come with higher deductibles or co-payments to doctors and hospitals.
Private health plans don't have the luxury of burdening doctors and hospitals in this way.
For five years they avoided doctors and hospitals as much as possible, Ms. Stoll says.
Too many doctors and hospitals are still using the same record-keeping technology as Hippocrates.
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That is because Medicaid does not pay the doctors and hospitals enough to assure such care.
The burden might fall on doctors and hospitals, tasked with providing more with less funding.
One pick is Quest Diagnostics, the leading provider of clinical diagnostic tests for doctors and hospitals.
Does this kill hopes that Microsoft would unshackle doctors and hospitals from truly abysmal computer systems?
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Imerman started reaching out to doctors and hospitals and was referred to other cancer survivors.
But that assumes doctors and hospitals won't change their behavior when the incentives change.
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This coming year, the ObamaCare law is scheduled to markedly reduce payments to doctors and hospitals.
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India's drugmakers have many home-turf advantages, including long relationships with Indian doctors and hospitals.
That would in turn incrementally change how doctors and hospitals provide care, encouraging competition in price and quality.
To comply, doctors and hospitals must make patients fill out countless forms and install elaborate computer security systems.
An independent board will set payment rates for doctors and hospitals, as well as benefit packages for patients.
The Medical system, the Doctors and hospitals, would improve in efficiency 10 fold if the industry went paperless.
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One uncontroversial idea is to encourage doctors and hospitals to provide more information on the cost of treatment.
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Policies without premium increases will have to change, probably by shifting to more restrictive networks of doctors and hospitals.
Medicaid currently pays doctors and hospitals only 60% or less of costs for their health services to the poor.
These are all primarily cuts in payments to doctors and hospitals for health care services to seniors under Medicare.
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The program today pays doctors and hospitals only 60% of costs for their health care services for the poor.
That would mean doctors and hospitals will offer tests whenever people come in.
Are these factors for which we should hold doctors and hospitals principally responsible?
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It adds that because doctors and hospitals have an informational advantage, they have an incentive to over-supply their services.
Yet, Medicaid pays doctors and hospitals only 60% or less of costs for their health services to the poor.
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The idea is to pay doctors and hospitals based on how good a job they do for their patients.
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Hospital performance data should be publicly available to consumers, so we can choose doctors and hospitals with the best records.
There is only one catch: the insurance plan reimburses doctors and hospitals one-tenth of their costs in caring for the insured.
Gov. Schwarzenegger is calling for a 4% payroll tax on companies that don't "play"--and another 4% tax on doctors and hospitals.
Most doctors and hospitals would rather not post their prices, because then patients would shop around, placing pressure on their incomes.
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