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InternetNews March 15, 2004 Michael Singer	Firm to Offer Open Source Insurance OSRM is targeting the Fortune 500 with insurance against open source litigation, after looking at what lies beyond SCO Group's intellectual property lawsuits.
Financial Advisor March 2004 Marla Brill	Will Health Savings Accounts Have A Market? new way to pay for health care that combines an insurance component with an intriguing savings kicker was introduced by the Medicare Reform Act in December. Health savings accounts (HSAs) are designed to help individuals save for qualified medical and retiree health expenses on a tax-favored basis.
Managed Care February 2004 John Carroll	DM Standards Off and Crawling When American Healthways posted a collaborative methodology on its Web site, not everyone in the industry applauded.
Managed Care February 2004 Bob Carlson	Finding Common Ground: Where Foundations, MC Meet Tapping into local foundations' expertise and knowledge is one way managed care can start to reinvent itself.
Managed Care February 2004	Improving Oral Pharmacologic Treatment And Management of Type 2 Diabetes New oral treatment options and outcome measures may help patients with type 2 diabetes to achieve better results while reducing associated costs.
Managed Care February 2004 John A. Marcille	The Administration Delivers A Major Gift to Managed Care Which brings me to the announcement that Medicare payments to health plans participating in what was called Medicare+Choice but is now known as MedicareAdvantage will increase by a record 10.6 percent.
Managed Care February 2004	New Twist on an Old Effort: Paying People To Live Right Health care providers are trying to monitor and reward people for living healthy lifestyles.
Managed Care February 2004	Access Equal In For-Profits, Not-For-Profits? Scientific studies sometimes produce surprising conclusions, and one published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicating that for-profit health plans involved in Medicare+Choice provide just as much access to high-cost medical procedures as not-for-profit competitors, certainly did.
Managed Care February 2004	Per capita health care spending growth slows Spending growth per privately insured American pulled back in the first half of 2003. Spending increased by 8.5 percent, a significant drop from the 10-percent increase in the second half of 2002.
Managed Care February 2004	Headlines On Deadline ... Developing quality benchmarks for consumer-directed health plans will be the mission of a committee launched by the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission, which is still primarily known by its original acronym, URAC.
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