MEDICAL FIRM PONDERS SALE; WOODLAND HILLS HMO MAY PART WITH REGIONAL SUBSIDIARIES.Byline: Ben Sullivan Daily News Staff Writer Managed care specialist Foundation Health Systems Inc. said it is considering selling its QualMed health maintenance organizations in Colorado, Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. , Washington and New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). in an effort to raise funds to buy back FHS FHS - Filesystem Hierarchy Standard stock and boost earnings. FHS spokeswoman Lisa Haines said a decision is expected on a possible sale within three months. QualMed operations in the four states, plus others FHS previously said it plans to sell in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, have a combined membership of about 460,000. FHS' total commercial membership is about 4.2 million. ``We're in the process of evaluating all of our assets outside California, Arizona and the Northeast, which we consider our core areas,'' Haines said. FHS shares closed down 25 cents at $28.50. In other HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, news, Gov. Pete Wilson For others named Pete Wilson, see . Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that on Thursday signed into law a bill that requires managed care plans to uniformly disclose their health plan benefits in a uniform manner to consumers. The bill requires health plans to publish information about their benefits, services and terms in grid format that lets consumers compare one plan to another. Liz Helms, president of the TMJ TMJ abbr. temporomandibular joint syndrome Temporomandibular joint pain (TMJ) Pain and other symptoms affecting the head, jaw, and face that are caused when the jaw joints and muscles controlling them don't work Society of California, which supported the bill, said in a written statement that Wilson signing the law was ``a great step toward achieving disclosure in managed care.'' Independent health care groups including the San Francisco-based Pacific Business Group on Health have published similar grids in the past. But the data was often incomplete or not equivalent across plans because of different reporting methods. |
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