Transplant successes stir debate on coverage

Article Abstract:

As transplant operations move from being classified as experimental procedures to accepted ones, the issue of payment becomes important. As a result of the National Institutes of Health's "cautious approval" of liver transplant surgery, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts has set up TIP - its Transplant Insurance Plan - to cover subscribers for any liver, heart or heart-lung transplant for 5 days prior to surgery to 12 months after it. TIP costs 50 cents extra per month for individuals and 2 dollars per month for families.

Economic aspects, Contracts, Interview, Massachusetts, Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation, transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Thompson, John Larkin

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First payer to launch drug-benefit management firm

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Blue Cross of Idaho is joining Caremark International to create a for-profit prescription management company. Unlike other prescription management firms, the venture will not be owned by a pharmaceutical company with a financial interest in certain products. The company, slated to open on September 1, 1995, is expected to make $25-$30 million in yearly revenue. The company will offer a mail order program as well as providing services to Blue Cross of Idaho's 282,000 subscribers.

Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers, Medical Insurance NEC, Health care industry, Insurance industry, Joint ventures, Prescription drug plans, Caremark International Inc., Blue Cross of Idaho

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Harvard turns down hospital sale

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Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital decided not to sell McLean Psychiatric Hospital to the Hospital Corporation of America. The reason given was faculty opposition. The hospital needs to be renovated, and it is uncertain how this will be financed.

Psychiatric hospitals, Finance, Buildings and facilities, Harvard University. School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts)

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