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Blues expands transplant network, adds new procedures

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The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is adding lung, heart/bilateral lung and pancreas/kidney transplant procedures and provider networks to its National Transplant Networks Program. The three new networks bring the number of medical institutions participating in the transplant network to 94. Although the new networks will connect patients in need of organ transplants with medical centers that have a proven track record, the United Network for Organ Sharing is worried about the dominance of the network diminishing patient access.

Patent owners and lessors, Services, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

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Reform or not, insurers see changes ahead

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The health insurance industry will change substantially in the 1990s regardless of what type of health care reform is implemented. Financial rating firms such as Standard and Poor's Corp are taking a negative view of the industry because many proposed reforms would decrease the profits of insurance companies and reduce their underwriting and rate-setting abilities. In addition, most reform proposals would encourage a move from indemnity insurance to some type of managed care plan.

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Physicians set up, buy into Iowa health plan

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Over 200 physicians in Iowa have set up a physician-owned health plan called CommUnity Choice Health Plan in conjunction with Iowa Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the Iowa Methodist Medical Center. The system will begin operations in Jan 1993 and hopes to enroll 132,000 people by 1996. Each physician will purchase a share of the system. Additional physicians will be carefully screened using many criteria including their ability to control medical costs.

Hospitals, Health Care and Social Assistance, HEALTH SERVICES, Hospital and medical service plans, Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Medical & Health Services, Innovations, Medical care, Iowa, Group medical practice, Health services administration, Hospital administration, IASD Health Services Corp., Iowa Methodist Medical Center

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