Insurance

Magazine articles on HMO's and other insurance companies.

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Managed Care June 2004 Tony Berberabe	Welcome to the Brave, New (Electronic) World, Doctor WellPoint is providing free handheld or even desktop computers in an effort toward minimizing medication errors. Will docs finally abandon pen and pad?
Managed Care June 2004 John A. Marcille	What Might Be the Health Cost of Changes in Benefit Design? We need to pay attention to the health effects of benefit changes and avoid jumping on the cost-shifting bandwagon until we know more.
Managed Care June 2004	Bush Launches 10-Year-Effort To Create National EMR System The Bush administration is plowing toward a goal long sought by health plans and long-resisted by physicians: putting every patient's health history on electronic medical records.
Managed Care June 2004	90 Million Left In Dark About Medical Info The rush to create consumer-directed health plans might not go as far as some hope, based on findings in a recent study by the Institute of Medicine.
Managed Care June 2004	Mergers Remain Hot Topic In Managed Care Health plans increasingly find themselves in a position where they need to grow or else, according to A.M. Best, the rating company.
Managed Care June 2004	Administrative Costs: The Price of Giving Consumers More Choice Private health insurance expenses not related to direct care services continue to rise, but the higher costs buy what people want.
Managed Care June 2004 John Carroll	This Regulator Works For the Governator California is the only state that has a department that deals exclusively with HMOs. A new sheriff's in town.
Managed Care June 2004	Providers Retain Upper Hand Over Health Plans Hospitals in recent years have been successful in getting higher rates, decreasing their exposure to risk and obtaining other advantageous contract provisions from health plans, according to a new study.
Managed Care June 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	CDC Begins To Provide Resources for Workplace Wellness Programs As employers become more comfortable with the idea that prevention pays, health plans may find their scope of services widening.
Managed Care June 2004	The Bigger They (MCOs) Are, the Better They'll do Sseveral of the largest companies are expected to outperform their rivals, according to Doug Simpson, a securities analyst at Merrill Lynch who tracks managed care stocks.
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