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Article: Health Care in Transition.(Brief Article)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- June 4, 2001
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HEALTH CARE IS AMONG THE most complex, highly regulated industries in the country. Today's health care leaders exercise limited control over the price of their services. With almost 44 million Americans without insurance and federally funded insurance programs paying mere cents on the dollar, health care leaders face staggering uncollectable charges and write-offs and work to sustain organizations on diminishing, razor-thin margins. Mounting pressures on the industry bring new challenges on a daily basis, making these perilous times for many fragile health care organizations. The only thing that is reasonably certain in today's health care environment is that long-term, ...