Sentences with phrase «narrowing the networks of»

As companies and insurers look for additional ways to reduce healthcare costs, they're increasingly narrowing the networks of doctors and medical providers with whom they offer preferred rates.

Insurers, along with shifting costs to consumers, are narrowing the networks of covered providers.

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The premise of all these pitches is that you can take any good idea for a product, service or network (typically someone else's idea, who is already hitting it out of the park) and shrink that business down to a narrower target population or niche, or to a certain kind of consumer, and instantly turn the process of serving that smaller segment into a big business as well.

«Some of our international students, if they're not aggressively reaching out and building that network and exposing to the business community, and only leveraging very narrow resources, they might lose their dream.»

«Better negotiating [with hospitals and other providers] won't produce these types of savings, so owning clinics or building narrow networks may be the only way to make it work,» said Stephen Buck, co-founder of Courage Health and a founder of drug discount provider GoodRx.

Again, it's going to go in this direction of, if the regulators allow it and this is certainly what Republicans want to do by accelerating the deregulation of very, very narrow network, very, very high deductible plans that don't cover that much and so on and so forth because they're just too expensive.

But the reputation of the bill is that it is pushing against high deductible plans when, in fact, while it does increase benefits that do need to be covered, it's allowed for quite high deductible and, for that reason, also pushed toward very narrow networks.

At first the radio networks sold time to religious speakers, but some of the more outspoken clergy were much too narrow and controversial for their liking.

The New Hope Network content team had a hard task in narrowing down more than 360 product nominations to this outstanding group of NEXTY Award finalists.

In a two - tiered judging process, New Hope Network editors, Sterling - Rice Group staff and industry judges narrowed them down to a pool of 72 product finalists across 22 categories to represent what's next in the natural products industry.

The authors» narrow focus, while useful for looking at social networking sites as tools, makes it difficult to draw broader conclusions, for instance when they state that, «The translation of internet strategies into votes may be minimal.»

We also began a programme of revamping the narrow gauge rail network we have in the country.

There is the possibility that there could be a wider range of plans, but those plans will be written by the insurance companies and could have high deductibles or a narrow network range.

Oscar, which is losing hundreds of millions of dollars, recently announced it was drastically narrowing its network.

If one cares about narrowing inequality in the city, expanding the charter school network is one of the best steps to take

The Cassini observations reveal that the channels — in particular, a network of them named Vid Flumina — are narrow canyons, generally less than half a mile (a bit less than a kilometer) wide, with slopes steeper than 40 degrees.

«You've got narrow vessels with thickening fluid trying to get through them,» which in effect creates a network of tiny blood clots, Cochran says.

It's easy to imagine the model extended beyond your immediate social network into more narrow needs: Find all the Civil War buffs within 10 blocks of me, or Jungian psychoanalysts, or native Portuguese speakers.

The narrow strands were arranged in an organised fashion and were interconnected to each other like a finely tuned network of water pipes.

Our recent demonstration of high levels of classification accuracy based on examination of specific intrinsic large - scale networks in 7 — 12 year - old children highlights the utility of using data from narrower developmental windows to identify potential biomarkers for the disorder (Uddin et al., 2013).

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Virtual romantic gifts are appreciated as much as real ones and probably even more, because they are visible to the entire user's social network, while offline presents are only visible to a narrow group of people.

In the massive world of web - based matchmaking, Spark Networks is finding success by creating a narrower and shallower dating pool.

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As educators endeavor to look beyond policies that standardize teaching and narrow curricula, we all need resources and networks that will recover the grandeur of our profession and elevate it to new levels of attainment.

The Enthusiast Network Executive Producer David Freiburger, Petersen's 4 - Wheel & Off Road Editor - at - Large Fred Williams, and Meguiar's Customer Engagement Leader RJ de Vera served as judges of the program and narrowed down the field to the Top 10 cars, before the finalists judged their fellow competitors in front of an audience at the SEMA Show.

If anything, Big Five authors actually have a narrower digital distribution network than indies; there are sizeable distribution channels (such as Kindle Unlimited) that indies sell through, which Big Five published - authors currently can not, due to the policies of their publishers.

This narrow trail, which runs parallel to the north face of Mori Ridge, connects you to the rest of the trail network.

The Old Town consists of a network of narrow passageways and small courts where you can stroll around quaint shops and enjoy a drink in a cafe.

The town is made up of a network of twisting, narrow cobbled streets and ancient buildings and was an important step on the «Camino de Santiago» pilgrimage route.

Set on a hilltop with fantastic views over the surrounding countryside, the small city boasts an enticing network of narrow streets and an attractive Old Town.

Such terrain is ideally suited to narrow - gauge railways and a network was built in the pioneering days of the railway.

The area was, until recently, filled with abandoned fishermen's cottages and merchants» houses but is now characterised by a network of vibrantly coloured, narrow cobbled streets.

Even when you've narrowed down your search to a particular network and issuer, you still have a very important decision to make: which type of rewards do you want?

The city has a medieval network of narrow streets that has expanded over the centuries to include cathedrals, a large university, and modern industries.

You could also take a relaxing stroll, weaving through the quaint tangled network of narrow streets, as you descend back down to the main town.

Ticket sales will benefit Educare Arizona, a national network of early childhood centers dedicated to narrowing the achievement gap for low - income children.

Discover the town's network of narrow alleyways complete with Chinese Taoist shrines, as well as a host of opportunities to buy artworks and curios along with clothing and accessories.

FFXII has a variety of beautiful environments, from wide - open plains to networks of narrow caves, but it does not care whether or not you poke your nose into every dead end and cul - de-sac.

The artist describes these works as «appearing to be ridden with incompleteness: not fully formed — perhaps in order to narrow down the possibility of them being chanced upon by peril, or so burdened with detail that peril itself might just be put off and look elsewhere: displaced cavities, exposed networks of nerves, limbs, eyelashes, sculptural mass made lighter in places by subtraction.

In this style of «networked» knowledge journalism, Revkin combines his experience and authority as a veteran science journalist with the interactive tools of blogging, providing a «crosscutting discussion of science, policy and politics that challenges assumptions among partisans on all sides and widens the menu of options available to policymakers rather than narrowing them to just a few,» notes Nisbet.

«We are members of LawNet, the network for independent law firms, and spoke to various people about their views on the market, and narrowed the choice down to three suppliers,» he said.

After a period in which the ECJ interpreted the doctrine narrower — Opinion 1/94 on the nature of the EU's competence to conclude the WTO agreements being the clearest example — in a string of recent cases the ECJ has returned to a broader reading of the doctrine (see in particular Neighbouring Rights, Opinion 1/13 and Green Network).

By putting some effort into narrowing down a geographic area, making a rural network, and looking at a variety of resources, you'll be in a position to know about and hunt down rural opportunities when they arise.

By positioning itself as the networking site for these three groups of professionals, HubSTREET is narrowing the slice of the legal community to which it is likely to appeal.

In her presentation, Ellen Gutterman, an associate professor and political scientist at York University's Glendon College, said while it is clear there has been «across - the - board enforcement» of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by the U.S. Department of Justice since 2002, it considers a «narrow idea» of corruption as discrete transactions rather than tackling embedded networks.

Aetna has a wide variety of HMO and PPO network tiers, ranging from very narrow doctor groups to broad, statewide networks.

Anthem has full and narrow network tiers, and allows only one tier to be selected and any number of plans within the tier.

McKinsey & Company define a «narrow network» as one that provides an enrollee access to less than 70 percent of hospitals in a rating area.3