HMOs bring back unpopular controls - 08/16/04
To stem crushing medical costs, HMOs return to doctor choice restrictions, limited hospital stays.
HMOs are bringing back some tried-and-true but highly unpopular methods to stem crushing medical costs, according to the findings of a nationwide survey released Wednesday.
Employers turned to health maintenance
organizations in the early 1990s to get a handle on rapidly rising health
care costs. HMOs used unpopular methods like restricting choices of
doctors and limiting hospital stays, and had some success in curbing
medical cost growth...
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Health Plan That Cuts Costs Raises Doctors' Ire - 08/16/04
Elbert Littlefield, 76 and seriously ill with diabetes and congestive heart failure, had all but given up trying to take care of himself.
With three doctors and with 24 pills in the morning and 14 at night, he was never sure if he had taken his medications correctly and could not even list what they were. He was repeatedly rushed to the emergency room and asked for his diagnoses and a list of his medications, though, he said, "there was no way in the world I could remember."
Now all that has changed through an innovative program that has lowered costs by, among other things, assigning nurses and creating electronic records for some patients in Bellingham and surrounding Whatcom County, in northwest Washington... Full Story
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