And HMO reform and probably prescription drugs for Medicare recipients will be major issues.
Medicare is not adept, like an HMO, at complex payment schemes such as this new system.
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You know, put yourself in the position of a young person working for an HMO.
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But the most important difference between Kaiser and every other big HMO is its business model.
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Validare is cultivating relationships with giant insurer UnitedHealth Group and GHI, another New York HMO.
Because HMO staff, under the guise of saving money and raising quality, were denying patients care.
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He cites an impending writeoff of the HMO's intangibles (mostly goodwill), now 42% of assets.
States were facing deep deficits and cutbacks in HMO-based Medicaid coverage for the poor.
She has found that her NxStage patients save the HMO money because of fewer hospital days.
During the congressional debate over the stimulus the HMO industry never objected to that subsidy.
As expected, it included a robust public plan option and was condemned by the HMO lobby.
An 18-year veteran of UnitedHealth, Quam was an important executive at the Minnesota HMO giant.
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Late yesterday the Indianapolis HMO giant WellPoint bid adieu to two more senior executives.
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Analysts missed big on HMO quarterly earnings, low balling by 20 to 40 percent.
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The unexpectedly good news sent HMO stocks up in after-hours trading that day.
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Under the proposal, seniors would be encouraged to join HMO's or other managed care systems.
Medicare beneficiaries would also have the option of moving into a Medicare HMO, as they do now.
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Oxford City Council wants landlords with a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) to apply for planning permission.
He also likes HMO WellPoint Health Networks (nyse: WLP - news - people ).
The legislation is designed to curb HMO and managed care abuses but will result in regulatory disaster.
Never mind that those same HMO-related allegations had been key to the government's case against the company.
In the U.S., Cigna acts predominantly as an HMO that delivers insurance packages to larger scale employers.
The real phoniness here is the idea that the HMO lobby AHIP is committed to cutting costs.
When Massachusetts became a mandatory insurance state, the caterer began offering Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA HMO.
She helped seal a deal with the AARP to sell Medicare HMO and supplemental plans to its members.
And he opts for health stocks catering to aging boomers, like HMO operator Wellpoint and drug distributor Cardinal Health.
With this dynamic there has, perhaps not surprisingly, been a stream of former HMO executives who have become whistleblowers.
Charterhouse Residents Association claims that too many homes of multi occupancy (HMO) were leading to a "breakdown in communities".
Both the White House and Congress are looking at a variety of remedies to deal with the HMO backlash.
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