Insurance

Magazine articles on HMO's and other insurance companies.

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Managed Care November 2000	Aetna Opens Gate With Several New No-Referral Plans Aetna U.S. Healthcare will launch a series of products Jan. 1 that will drop the gatekeeper function. In most cases, the new plans, called Aetna Open Access, will allow members to receive care from specialists without a referral from their primary care physicians...
Managed Care November 2000	For first time ever, HMO enrollment drops in 1999 National HMO enrollment fell by 400,000 last year, from its all-time high of 81.3 million. For at least two years, a wider array of managed care products and an ever-smaller pool of people still covered under indemnity plans slowed the rate of HMO enrollment growth...
Managed Care October 2000	How you fare under capitation Warren Surveys talked to about 50 HMOs and community based health plans in 1999 to tally what they were paying physicians in capitation and risk-arrangement contracts...
CIO October 15, 2000 Tracy Mayor	Restoration Hard (and soft)ware How two brand names from generations past, TWA and Allstate, are using IT initiatives to renovate their businesses...
Managed Care September 2000 Frank Diamond	'New' Aetna and Kaiser Face Future The biggest for-profit and not-for-profit MCOs have been through rough times recently. How have their corporate cultures changed?
Managed Care September 2000 John Carroll	Mergers, Acquisitions Afoot In Disease Management Industry Within a few years, there may be only 30 DM companies left, says one expert. HMO customers want vendors to handle more than one condition...
Managed Care September 2000	Interview: Peter Boland Will the electronic revolution overthrow managed care? Not necessarily, but it may help define a new role for MCOs not far in the future...
Managed Care September 2000 John A. Marcille	Kaiser, Aetna Keep Eyes On Health Care Consumer Sometimes breaking old ground can be just as satisfying as breaking new. What these two plans are looking at, experts believe, is a health care system moving toward defined contributions...
Managed Care September 2000	WellPoint Product Makes New Bid For Working Poor WellPoint Health Networks is trying to attract an underinsured, price-sensitive market: the working poor. WellPoint hopes its new low-cost plans will lure small employers and uninsured people who earn under 200 percent of poverty...
Managed Care September 2000	Key Texas Lawsuit Against HMO Now Off Court Docket The first lawsuit against an HMO under Texas's health plan liability statute has been settled...
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