Sharing of fees for services provided in the
alliance or on an engagement.
Less than 24 hours after the World Trade Center and Pentagon were hit, the NATO
Alliance, for the first time in history, invoked Article 5 - the collective defense provision of the 1949 NATO Treaty.
The first question is whether the
alliance is flying where I want to go.
Each member of an
alliance should be careful not to train the other member so well that its management knows the business and no longer needs the partner, he said.
The specific incentive to form an
alliance in Minnesota was the state's new Senior Health Options plan, which in essence pulls together all Medicaid/Medicare long-term care funding into a managed care capitation, under contract with HMOs and horizontal provider groupings called Community Integrated Service Networks (CISNs).
We anticipate our first product from the
alliance in the mid-1990s.
Typical issues involve control, the shifting balance of power within an
alliance, and the fear of losing competitive advantage.
Independent
alliance associations are a formal to informal mix of CPAs and/or other professionals that cross-refer clients or solve other service problems for them.
Nursing Homes managing editor Laura Bruck spoke with Schutt about the formation and operation of the
Alliance and what such an arrangement means to its member agencies and the recipients of the services they provide.
