Starting up the upstarts

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Venture capital is moving toward health care companies that manage care better and more consistently, not just companies that cut costs. Some venture financiers think effective medicine is a good investment and are showing an interest in practice management companies and information technology. Care-oriented companies are trying out clinical protocols, patient self-reporting, clinical trials, and case management. Venture capital grew to $1.1 billion in 1996 in a rapidly-changing environment.

Venture Capital Companies, Miscellaneous Intermediation, Investors, not elsewhere classified, Health care industry, Statistics, Venture capital

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What a little arm-twisting can do

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Patient advocates offer their clients a variety of services which include representation against insurance companies and advice on healthcare plan management and medical bill administration. Doctors, attorneys and claims specialists act as patient advocates. Some patient advocates concern themselves with denial of benefits based on interpretations of policy language. Others review medical bills for evidence of double payments from overlapping coverage.

Services, Health insurance, Patient advocacy

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Power to the patients: Healthwise teaches Boise residents to take charge of their health care

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Boise, ID's Healthwise Communities project is attempting to lower healthcare costs by educating consumers. The nonprofit group's Healthwise Handbook, which was distributed at no cost to 125,000 homes, is intended to help people distinguish between symptoms that call for a doctor's care and those that call for home treatment. The project is funded by employers, local insurance companies, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

SOCIAL SERVICES, Private Social Services, Social Assistance, Education, Interview, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs, Patient education, Mettler, Molly

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