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The Managed Care Insider eNews Volume Two Number 6 July 2000 PART TWO of TWO Welcome to The Managed Care Insider eNews. You are receiving this because you have subscribed; the eNews is never sent unsolicited. Subscribe/unsubscribe information can be found at the end of this eNews. The Managed Care Insider eNews is published, copyrighted, and owned by The Scheur Management Group, Inc. (SMG), http://www.scheur.com and is distributed monthly, free to subscribers. If you wish to forward this edition, you may do so only if the edition is forwarded in its entirety. No reproduction of any part of this publication is permitted without the express permission of the publishers. ---------------------------------------------------------------- In Part One of this Insider eNews issue, we focused on health care delivery and Medicare+Choice HMO pullouts. Part Two features a reader's response to our June Issue (Insider Vision: Wants versus Needs, Vol 2. n 5, Part One. URL: http://www.scheur.com/smghome.nsf/webcontent/EzineArchVol2No5Part1.html ) in which our reader expresses his views on the purchase of health benefits. We believe it fits with the issue's theme and hope it encourages more reader response. As always, we invite you to send us your comments to insider@scheur.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Our Readers Write An Opinion Expressed by Alan Stoll Dear Editors, I (sic) enjoyed the recent edition of Managed Care Insider News. A major problem still exists re "public's expectations" and reality. The public expects "highest quality care---regardless of cost" while politicians, employers, and insurers (managed care and otherwise) are very concerned about cost. MDs get caught in the middle and cannot deliver on the politician's promises. At some point someone needs to tell everyone that reality is there must be reasonable limits. (Even now mixed message continues as we try to add prescription drugs to an already overspent Medicare system--where will additional money come from?) We need to make the patient a partner in the health care delivery process -- including a financial incentive for "good health behavior" i.e. you cost less, you pay less with understanding that patient will share in overall money/cost savings. Alan Stoll ---------------------------------------------------------------- What's New? Speaking Engagements Barry S. Scheur: September 21, 2000 Mobile Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors October 6, 2000 Texas PHO Association Wyndham Hotel, Arlington, TX Managed Care: Is It Dead? ---------------------------------------------------------------- WHERE DO YOU STAND? We would like to hear from physicians. How are you using technology in your practice? SMG invites you to complete our brief survey on "Where Physicians Stand on Technology." As a thank you for completing this survey, we will give you a one-month free subscription to our new online knowledge management service e=mc2 (managed care squared). e=mc2 is a customized, knowledge management online service designed to provide healthcare professionals with the information power to achieve goals, manage systems and implement tools in strategic business development. It's another way of demonstrating our commitment to reshaping managed care with an emphasis on empowering providers with information. FOLLOW THIS LINK to the Where Physicians Stand on Technology Survey: http://www.scheur.com/1technology/webpage/mcochallenge.nsf/ts62000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sites and Sounds on the Net: SMG has no ownership of, nor does it endorse the following sites. This information is presented as a resource for subscribers. In keeping with this issue's focus on health care delivery and Medicare+Choice, we present the following sites which cover these areas. Families USA offers a Consumer Advocacy Group comparison of Medicare HMOs at http://www.familiesusa.org/mhmo1.htm For ratings on Medicare Supplemental Policies and over 200 Medicare HMOs, check out the consumer report at http://www.consumerreports.org/Special/Free/Reports/0006med0.htm 1999 Best and Worst of Medicare HMOs from insure.com at http://www.insure.com/gen/bw99medicare.html The official Medicare Information site for consumers at http://www.medicare.gov/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- End of PART TWO of TWO, The Managed Care Insider eNews, Volume Two, Number 6. Scheur Management Group (SMG) is one of the most experienced specialized healthcare operations management and business revitalization consulting firms in the country. Our expertise is in time-sensitive analyses, strategic business and market planning, operational re-engineering, and communications, as well as implementation of start-ups, expansions, and new products. The firm's clients cover the spectrum of insurers, managed care organizations, physician groups, integrated delivery systems, hospitals, employers, governmental entities, vendors, and other providers. Contributing to this edition is Barry Scheur. Editing and Research by Judith Jaffe. Production Coordination by Nancy K. Belle. TO SUBSCRIBE: visit http://www.scheur.com/smghome.nsf/webcontent/ezine.html or send e-mail to insider@scheur.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject and name, email, company, title, and country in the message. TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email message to insider@scheur.com with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject. 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