PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - M. Korcok
TI  - The brave new world of managed care
DP  - 1995 Jul 01
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 89--91
VI  - 153
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/153/1/89.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/153/1/89.full
SO  - CMAJ1995 Jul 01; 153
AB  - Canadian hospitals that think they can charge higher-than-normal rates to foreign visitors are learning a lesson as US-style managed care moves north of the border. Dr. Robert MacMillan, president and medical director of Florida-based Insurance Claims Management Systems and past president of the Ontario Medical Association, says that south of the border US-style managed care has already hauled in the reins on wild expectations about high payments, and it is expected to do the same for Canadian hospitals that charge private insurers "as much as the traffic will bear." He says it is no longer uncommon for a large Toronto hospital to charge a foreign patient $3000 a day for care that can now be purchased in a US hospital for one-third that price.