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S F Coady

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Where are the data?

As benefit plan managers approach the problems of health care cost in a more businesslike manner, the need for accurate, timely, and complete information will increase dramatically. Those data needs should encourage every plan administrator to assure that the requisite quantity and quality of data are being collected and made available. In the future, it will be considered a dereliction of duty to stop there without assuring that the data are being studied and used to better manage the plan. The absence of such decision support virtually guarantees waste of plan assets.

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An analysis of proposed nonprofit to for-profit conversion sales.

Not-for-profit hospitals are increasingly considering the sale or long-term lease of assets to for-profit chains as a proactive response to anticipated future operating conditions. Analyzed here are two simplified examples, one a proposed sale and the other a lease option. They provide the basis for determining whether the hospital's current commitment to charity and community service will be met in the future

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