Most Visionary Relationship: Beaumont Hospital and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Like most health care delivery organizations, Beaumont Hospital is under constant pressure from the government and insurance companies to find new ways to reduce costs.
Outsourcing: The Big Picture. The outlook for pure outsourced big deals will decrease in the coming year, according to Jim Champy, chairman of outsourcing at Perot Systems.
Anthem, Inc., a carrier of health insurance, was in the middle of an outsourcing contract when they decided to conduct a benchmark on price and service levels last spring. The reason for the company’s decision was simple. They suspected that they were paying too much for their current service. That proved to be true.
This relationship was chosen based on the strong affinity between supplier and customer in particular, the high degree of dependence of MedPartners on ACS.
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