South Florida Business Journal articles from July 1996

South Florida Business Journal archives from July 1996

Doctors toss prescription pads in favor of Amway order forms: escaping managed care with specialties and sidelines.
July 5, 1996... What do cosmetics, travelers' immunizations and Amway have in common? All are ways South Florida doctors are finding to augment their incomes or to step away from traditional medicine. Although some are making these career choices for personal...

Making the grade with Whitman. (Whitman Education Group Inc.'s adult education business)
July 5, 1996... Adult education business is now emerging as a Wall Street favorite MIAMI - Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. did it with hospitals. Blockbuster did it with video stores. Now, IVAX Corp. Chairman Phillip Frost hopes to seize on the opportunity to...

Miami firm hopes to be the Quicken of health care. (Silverio and Associates' cheap AccuChecker for Windows)
July 5, 1996... MIAMI - Keeping up with changes in health care payments can be daunting. Insurance companies buy up each other, Medicare cuts back on reimbursement and insurance codes are in flux. In this topsy-turvy environment, the number of computer...

Humana employees learn to look through eyes of the elderly. (Humana Health Care Plans of South Florida)
July 5, 1996... Ever try to walk with uncooked macaroni shells in your shoes? Or write with your fingers taped together? Some employees at Humana Health Care Plans of South Florida have. While these exercises may sound like part of a twisted party game, they...

Agony of The Fetes. (event planning)
July 12, 1996... From the Pope's visit to Pavarotti's concert, N. Miami Beach event planners sweat the details NORTH MIAMI BEACH - It's tough to be the party planner. Power failures, disappearing suits and overbearing pina colada vendors have been standard...

The power of positive placement. (feng shui in business)
July 12, 1996... Want a positive cash flow? Feng Shui consultants say start with a positive energy flow So, you're planning to open your new business and you think you have everything in order, The phones are in, the power is on, the equipment and furniture...

AmeriPath plan: buy labs, sell stock. (AmeriPath Inc.)
July 19, 1996... Consolidation hits anatomical pathology RIVERA BEACH -- With four laboratory acquisitions under his belt, James C. New says many pathologists who fought the pressures of managed care are bowing to the inevitable: Consolidate or die. New is...

Mayfair mall's makeover brings four new tenants.
July 19, 1996... Attracted by Lennar Corp.'s bid to make Streets of Mayfair a new CocoWalk COCONUT GROVE - A year after its sale to a partnership headed by Lennar Corp., Coconut Grove's Mayfair mail is making strides in its transformation from exclusive...

Stogie stocks. (public offerings of Consolidated Cigar Holdings and Caribbean Cigar Co.)
July 26, 1996... Pair of South Florida cigar makers fire up public offerings The smell of cigar smoke will waft its way to Wall Street this fall when two South Florida companies try to cash in on the newfound popularity of stinky stogies. Consolidated Cigar...

'I could have made it great.' (Ian Law; Benjamin Schiff)
July 26, 1996... Escrow money lands would-be property managers in hot water When Ian Law and Benjamin Schiff bought Florida Home Finders, they thought they could pay for the Port St. Lucie property management firm without using their own money. So the South...

Doc-turned-salesman guides PharmaSystems toward IPO. (Jose Rodriguez; PharmaSystems Cost Containment Corp.; public offering)
July 26, 1996... MIAMI - A Miami doctor who chucked a lucrative career as a pulmonologist to become an Amway pitchman has parlayed his sales success into his latest venture - PharmaSystems Cost Containment Corp. Jose Rodriguez' Miami-based company was...

Relocation home sales moving out of favor. (real estate)
July 26, 1996... Fire-sale prices on corporate home buyouts are burning Realtors, companies and neighbors Add another group of professionals to the list of corporate downsizing victims: real estate agents. No, Realtors aren't be laid off, but they are being...

Sunny Isles: reinventing itself as 'Aventura Beach.' (Dade County, Florida)
July 26, 1996... Failing hotels make way for luxury condos as a new city is created For 40 years, Sunny Isles, a beachfront community on the northern edge of Dade County, was known for low-rise motels, T-shirt shops and hot dog stands. But in the 1990s, the...

Time is ripe for Andrx's line of time-release drugs. (Andrx Corp.)
July 26, 1996... One month after IPO, Fort Lauderdale firm readies new generation of generics FORT LAUDERDALE - Next door you can hear the muffled sounds of construction workers as they hammer and saw, creating the concrete reality for what just four years ago...

Florida golfers swing at organizing new 40-plus tour.
July 26, 1996... Every weekend, thousands of over-the-hill guys hit the links with visions of professional golf swinging in their heads. They play with their buddies and hit near or under par, but when it comes down to a qualifying tournament for the Senior PGA...

Fed health-care review could send millions to small business.
July 26, 1996... THE BIG SEVEN These seven government health-care carriers will receive almost $11 billion in payments in 1996. Provider Contract amount Blue Cross/Blue Shield $6.45 billion...