1. An employee might want to learn how to report an injury, choose an attorney or a medical provider, or when an insurance company can deny benefits. 2. As cost-cutting managed care plans increasingly replace traditional fee-for-service medicine, medical providers have been pressured to become more efficient. 3. But a medical provider must consider her mature and informed enough about the consequences of her decision to undergo the procedure. 4. But the company has created a task force that includes community representatives and medical providers, as have many manufacturers. 5. Corrigan also said medical providers need to computerize patient information since computers can catch human errors, especially in medications. 6. Currently, most of these organizations get discounts from doctors and other medical providers by promising to provide them with a minimum amount of business. 7. Furthermore, because of the surplus of doctors and hospitals, the HMO can negotiate greater discounts with medical providers. 8. Gramm charges that medical providers have always found ways to work around such limits in the past. 9. Hospitals, doctors, nursing homes and other medical providers will be able to submit claims electronically under the new system. 10. In a common kind of fraud, rings of medical providers and accomplices who pose as victims of staged accidents claim payments for treatment. |
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