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Weighing your health plan choices.(Buyers Guide)
You're about as likely to hear good news about your health insurance as you are to find a pair of Payless shoes in one of Paris Hilton's closets.
First, there's the ever-increasing price. Since 2000, annual premiums for family coverage have risen 59 percent, six times the rate of inflation. That figure comes from the 2004 Employer Health Benefits survey of 1,925 U.S. firms conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit health-care research group, and the Health Research and Educational Trust, which is an affiliate of the American Hospital Association.
Employers are passing more of those higher costs on to you. A CONSUMER REPORTS 2004 survey of ...
- PPOs deliver what HMOs don't; PPOs blossom as consumers demand choice, access...
- Magazine article from: Modern Healthcare Kalish, Bradley April 20, 1998 700+ words
...consumer movement that's tilting toward PPOs and like products. And the full impact...with the wide choice and easy access of PPOs. With HMO rates increasing at a double-digit clip in 1998, PPOs and HMOs often are priced comparably...
- PPOs get turn under the microscope.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Modern Healthcare Benko, Laura B. June 5, 2000 700+ words
Although more Americans are now in PPOs than HMOs, PPOs receive far less scrutiny when it comes to the quality of...on Quality Assurance, is preparing a similar program for PPOs. The Washington-based not-for-profit NCQA is drafting...
- PPOS RIDING A WAVE OF POPULARITY.
- Magazine article from: Modern Healthcare Rauber, Chris June 7, 1999 700+ words
PPOs are surfing high at the moment, and plenty...health plans released in January, show that PPOs' share of the health insurance market is...recent years as ``managed-care lite,'' PPOs now command 40% of the market among covered...
- SILENT OR NONEXISTENT?: PPOS SEEN AS GETTING ILLICIT DISCOUNTS ARE TARGETED BY...
- Magazine article from: Modern Healthcare Gardner, Jonathan August 31, 1998 700+ words
A quiet lobbying battle over "silent PPOs" in the federal employees' health insurance...arose over an attempt by providers and some PPOs to outlaw or greatly restrict the Federal...Health Benefit Program's use of silent PPOs, plans that claim discounts from providers...
- SILENT OR NONEXISTENT?: PPOS SEEN AS GETTING ILLICIT DISCOUNTS ARE TARGETED BY...
- Magazine article from: Modern Healthcare Gardner, Jonathan August 31, 1998 700+ words
A quiet lobbying battle over "silent PPOs" in the federal employees' health insurance...arose over an attempt by providers and some PPOs to outlaw or greatly restrict the Federal...Health Benefit Program's use of silent PPOs, plans that claim discounts from providers...
- COST MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES OF PPOs.(preferred provider organizations )
- Magazine article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance Smith, Dean G. Betley, Charles L. June 1, 2000 700+ words
...provider organizations (PPOs) were virtually nonexistent...they grew to cover 20 percent of persons by 1990...experience suggested that PPOs saved 11 percent relative to traditional...national chain of PPOs found savings of 12 percent over traditional plans...
- Combating silent PPOs. (preferred provider organizations)
- Magazine article from: Healthcare Financial Management Belt, Judith E. Ryan, J. Bruce February 1, 1998 700+ words
...discount is assumed to be 30 percent). Provider A receives a payment...for the patient less the 30 percent PPO discount), $2,000...savings. An access fee of 40 percent would result in a payment of...attributable to the use of silent PPOs to be in excess of $1 million...
- Advisors struggle to compare PPOs.(Group Health Insurance)
- Magazine article from: National Underwriter Life & Health Bell, Allison March 21, 2005 700+ words
...preferred provider organizations with other PPOs and PPO network providers with other network...Employers in most parts of the country love PPOs. Many plans that still call themselves...grill friends and neighbors about their PPOs, can be even trickier, Pudlowski says...
