title: More red ink in 1999; better things to come?
abstract: While hospitals, medical group practices and integrated health care delivery systems can expect tight profit margins in 1999, Donald E. L. Johnson writes that both Medicare and private sector payments may stabilize over the next 12 months to bring improved bottom lines.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D000329:Advertising / Q000639:trends; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000639:trends*; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000639:trends; D020407:Internet; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D008389:Marketing of Health Services / Q000639:trends; D008484:Medicaid / Q000639:trends; D017057:Medically Uninsured / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006278:Medicare / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States