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How to Live With or Without The Beast of Managed Care Since we published our first Managed Care Survival
Kit in 1996, we've tried to give you useful tools that would help your practice survive with managed care. by Rich Kirkner, Editor-in-Chief This year we're taking a different tack. We're providing you with
strategies that will help your practice survive without managed care, if you so desire. Here's our lineup: • First, our resident managed-care expert, Randolph Brooks, O.D., takes the month off from his "Managed Care
Update" column so he can explain the best way for you to handle an audit if an insurance plan should take such a close look at your practice. • Next, your colleagues who have either stopped accepting third-party plans or have cut way back on the number they deal with
share their stories of how it has impacted their practices. (Hint: It's not bad news.) • Third, members of our National Panel, Doctors of Optometry provide an update on trends among optometric offices and third-party payers. • Fourth, colleague Neil B. Gailmard,
O.D., M.B.A., helps you get a handle on your practice costs so you can determine which insurance plans pay their own way. • Finally, this month's "Practice Profile" goes to Houston to tell the story of Danny S. Jee, O.D., who never
accepted third-party plans. We hope that this year's Managed Care Survival Kit gives you the tools you'll need to live with the beast of managed care—or without it. |
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