John Hancock officials give insights into rise of prepaid health plans: illustrate 'directions for future'.
Looking back on a year that has seen Atlanta's HMO enrollment increase 137 percent and their own AmeriPlan up by 300 percent, and with the financial break-even point reached a year ahead of schedule, officials of John Hancock's AmeriPlan Health Services spoke in glowing terms of the role and future of IPA HMOs in a recent Atlanta press conference. By year's end, they predict, "membership will easily exceed 100,000," about eight percent of the metro Atlanta population. These excerpts from speakers at a press conference for corporate employee benefits executives provide an insight into the insurance company's rationale for HMO development and point out how one major company is marketing its services to physicians, industry and consumers.
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