NEW YORK POLICY ON HOSPITAL INSURANCE WHAT’S GOOD FOR BLUE CROSS IS GOOD FOR NEW YORK
CREEPING FIASCO IN NEW JERSEY HOSPITAL COSTS (Roxanne Young, Associate Editor)
HOW TO FIGHT DRG CREEP
BREAST DISEASE AND BREAST HEALTH (Leslie Strong, M.D.)
ANESTHESIA EXPLAINED—Part II (Arthur A. Levin, M.P.H.)
WHERE TO FIND A SPECIALIST IN BREAST DISEASES

This issue continued with initial and follow-up stories on issues of interest to fund administrators and continued to follow the efforts of New Jersey self-insured funds to retain the right to negotiate discount hospital rates and the efforts of hospitals to upgrade DRG coding to the detriment of payers.

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