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Going for the green. as higher premiums and stable medical costs fuel health plans' profits, providers say time is right to win bigger reimbursement

Benko, L.B.

Modern Healthcare 33(33): 6-7; 14-15, 1

2003

ISSN/ISBN: 0160-7480
PMID: 12964474
Document Number: 558957
Thanks to higher premiums and a slowing of medical cost growth, the second quarter brought soaring profits at health plans across the nation. Hospitals plan to escalate their push for higher reimbursement while the iron is hot. Yet Oxford Health Plans President and CEO Charles Berg, left, says big profits don't paint the whole picture.

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