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MCOs under pressure to do more with less: rising costs and tighter payments will spur plans to offer innovative strategies for providing effective care.(POLITICS AND POLICY)

Publication: Managed Healthcare Executive
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Insurers and health plans have seen business grow in recent years, benefiting from changes in Medicare and efforts to expand healthcare coverage to more Americans. With health policy in the center of this year's national political debate, healthcare costs, benefits and access will be in the a...

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...spotlight, along with host of issues for managed care executives to deal with.

* Rising healthcare expenditures. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects total healthcare expenditures will rise from 16% of Gross Domestic Product today...

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