The End of Medicare Private Fee-For-Service--the Questions to Ask the Health Plans During Earnings Season
Now that we know private fee-for-service (PFFS) is dead on January 1, 2011 in all but the most rural markets, how will the health plans who have significant PFFS business respond?UnitedHealth is the first health plan to report earnings this quarter and I thought they had the right answer. From their earnings call transcript (Ovations CEO commenting):We have had a strategy of deliberately
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