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Managed Care
May 2000
Michael Levin-Epstein |
Marketing Medicare+Choice? Mind Your Ps and Qs, Says OIG A lot of Medicare HMOs' marketing materials don't cut it, says a report by the Office of the Inspector General. It adds that the Health Care Financing Administration is partly to blame....   |
Salon.com
May 25, 2000
J.B. Orenstein |
Who will care for the crazy? She was 18 and had been found hanging by a noose. But the moment I saw her insurer, I knew she was one of the lucky ones. |
Managed Care
April 2000
Karen L. Trespacz, J.D. |
League of Their Own: What Makes a Winning IPA? In a familiar cartoon, a professor writes long, learned equations on a blackboard. To connect the profundities on either end, he writes in the middle, "Then a miracle occurs." IPAs, done well, are the miracles that connect the ends of health care. |
Managed Care
April 2000
Steve Heimoff |
Auto Giant's New Model for Care Accelerates Service for Employees DaimlerChrysler wants all HMOs that it deals with to use the same forms and clinical guidelines in the treatment of five common conditions. |
Managed Care
April 2000
Michael D. Dalzell |
Not-for-Profit Group of Plans Goes After Medicine's Holy Grail Demonstrating long-term health improvement for specific populations is one of managed care's biggest unrealized goals. One group thinks it has the formula. |
Managed Care
April 2000
Mark Abernathy |
Avoid Common Problems In Risk-Sharing Contracts These arrangements too often become a hindrance instead of a help. Simple precautions today can help prevent major headaches later on. |
Managed Care
April 2000
John A. Marcille |
What Works, What Doesn't: From IPAs to Risk Sharing Some would say that IPAs, more than HMOs, appear to be about love of medicine more than hatred of rising costs. However, the two systems need not be antagonistic. In fact, IPAs can help HMOs in so many ways... |
Managed Care
April 2000 |
Cigna Colorado Ends Capitation For Most Primary Care Physicians In a strategic move aimed at retaining and recruiting top physicians, Cigna HealthCare of Colorado has dumped capitation. In late February, the insurer began paying most of its physicians in the state on a discounted fee-for-service basis.... |
Managed Care
April 2000 |
Financial Stability Of HMOs Called A Mixed Bag An HCIA-Sachs survey says the median HMO profit margin in 1998 was -1.7 percent, slightly better than in 1997. Forty-one percent of HMOs made money in 1998.... |
Managed Care
April 2000 |
NCQA To Put Report Cards On the Web The National Committee for Quality Assurance hopes to elevate the degree to which quality of care factors into people's choice of health plans. NCQA is placing health plan report cards on its web site... |
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