{"id":11040,"date":"2018-07-26T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11040"},"modified":"2018-07-26T12:37:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:37:09","slug":"hmos-are-making-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11040","title":{"rendered":"HMOs are making a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">According to PwC\u2019s Health Research Institute, medical costs have increased roughly six percent a year for the past half-decade outpacing U.S. economic growth and eroding workers\u2019 wage gains. So some employers wary of asking workers to pay even more are trying to rebuild their health programs. One way is to bring back health maintenance organizations (HMOs) but reviving the model with new technology and better customer service to help avoid the mistakes of the past. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2018\/07\/25\/managed-care-hmos-are-making-a-comeback\/?kw=Managed%20care%2C%20HMOs%20are%20making%20a%20comeback&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=BenefitsPRO&amp;cn=20180726&amp;src=EMC-Email&amp;pt=ConsumerDrivenPRO\">Read article here\u2026 <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to PwC\u2019s Health Research Institute, medical costs have increased roughly six percent a year for the past half-decade outpacing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11041,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040\/revisions\/11041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}