Insurer cuts targeted by doctors

Article Abstract:

Independence Blue Cross's move to impose a new round of reimbursement cuts by July 1, 1998, has caught the attention of doctors and hospital systems, who asked for a state Insurance and Health Departments probe. The doctors and hospital systems had typically ignored similar dictates by the major health-care insurer in the Philadelphia, PA, area, to its 2.6 million subscribers. However, the move is described by Lee H. McCormick as the last straw for physicians. McCormick is president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, which represents around 19,000 physicians and calculates that the insurer's new rates for doctors are 82% of the rate paid by the Medicare program.

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Move to impose a new round of reimbursement cuts by 7/1/98, has caught the attention of doctors and hospital systems

Consumer prices

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Doctors protest cuts in payment

Article Abstract:

Independence Blue Cross' new payment rates are being opposed by pediatricians, internists and other primary-care doctors. The company's president, G. Fred DiBona Jr., said that while they have reduced reimbursements rates for specialists, they have been increased for most services by primary-care doctors. However, primary-care physicians said that the company has cut reimbursement for the most common services, such as routine office visits. The company will continue to review its managed-are fee schedules and might modify some of them.

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Faces opposition from pediatricians, internists and other primary-care doctors on its new payment rates

Management development

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Insurer to raise payments to doctors

Article Abstract:

Independence Blue Cross will pay doctors more for their services, which should result in higher customer's premiums.

United States, Use of services, Commodity & service prices, INSURANCE CARRIERS, Use of Funds, Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), New England States, Abstract, New England

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