Two recent, national articles highlight some of the work that business coalitions, like NYBGH, and employers are focusing on. Reed Abelson, writing for the New York Times, sheds light on some employers' interest in narrowing their physician and/or hospital networks in order to save costs for both the company and their employees. Andrew Webber, the President of National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH), is quoted in the article, quipping about the choice battle during the managed care wars of the 1990's.
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In a second article, Abelson describes some physicians' groups', such as the American Medical Association (AMA), ire over how health insurers rank and rate physicians participating in their networks. In a recent letter to some of the nation's largest insurers, the AMA and 47 other groups, "called on the insurers to make public how they assessed doctors’ performance and to allow the insurers’ methods to be reviewed by independent parties." America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) responded to the letter, defending insurers' practices, asserting that employers and other purchasers have asked their health plans to ardently work towards achieving greater value and improved clinical performance..
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