Profiling gains acceptance within profession

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Physicians increasingly believe that practice profiling can enhance their leverage and compensation in managed-care situations. Affiliated Physicians Network Inc chief Joseph Welfeld, in comments at the National Managed Health Care Congress, noted that physicians, who once saw profiling as a necessary evil, see it a as beneficial. He explained that group practice members in sophisticated markets increasingly see profiling as a means of determining how risk pool funds are split up.

Research, Evaluation, Managed care plans (Medical care), Preventive health services, Preventive medicine

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Tort reform focus now shifts to state legislative action

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Physicians are optimistic about health care reform at the state level. Legislators in Ohio passed a package of liability reforms which place limits on noneconomic damages and scale back joint and several liability. The Pennsylvania Legislature passed a tort reform package spurred by excessive surcharges for a special liability fund.

Property & Liability Insurance, Direct Property and Casualty Insurance Carriers, Surety insurance, Laws, regulations and rules, Insurance industry, Property and casualty insurance, Social policy, Ohio, Liability insurance, Health care reform, Pennsylvania, Insurance

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