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Magazine articles on HMO's and other insurance companies.

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Managed Care February 2007	Covering Post-MI Therapies Could Save Billions in Long Run Covering the full cost of combination therapies to prevent patients from having a second myocardial infarction might initially cost health insurers an additional $550 per patient, but then could wind up saving them an average of $1,731 per event.
Managed Care February 2007	HSA Reform Allows Increased Contributions Contribution guidelines under the recently passed Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006.
Managed Care February 2007	Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage Rates Falling A new report says that that 61 percent of non-elderly Americans had employer-sponsored insurance in 2004, compared to 66 percent in 2000.
Managed Care February 2007	Companies Complain About Costs A survey of 12,000 top-level benefit and human resource managers reveals the impact of high health care costs on their company.
Managed Care February 2007	Medicare Part D Cost Increase Estimate Lowered Net Medicare Part D costs for fiscal year 2008 are estimated to be 30 percent less than projected when the benefit was created back in 2003.
Managed Care February 2007	Undertreatment of Childhood Obesity Blamed on Coding Undertreating childhood obesity may be tied to payment codes.
Managed Care February 2007 Martin Sipkoff	What's Good for the VHA Is Not So Good for Medicare Fundamental differences in program structure between Medicare and the Veterans Health Administration make drug pricing negotiations problematic.
Managed Care February 2007	Quality is Important, But Productivity Rules Despite a rise in the use of quality incentives to determine physician compensation, productivity remains the predominant determinant.
Managed Care February 2007	Study: Copayments do Affect Compliance Managed care decision makers have a powerful tool that affects patient compliance with antihypertensive medications - the copayment level.
Managed Care February 2007 Lola Butcher	Biggest Health Care Purchasers Bullish on Care Management Businesses see care management, not cost shifting, as the most important trend in health coverage.
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