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Managed Care
September 2000 |
Pending Affiliation Could Make Blues Group Biggest Not-for-Profit An affiliation between the parent of Blues companies in four Pacific Northwest states and the operator of Blues plans in Illinois and Texas will create the nation's largest not-for-profit insurer...   |
Managed Care
September 2000 |
Countdown Begins for Compliance With HIPAA Electronic Standards If you thought a lot of time and money was spent on Y2K readiness, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Complying with the new rules for electronic transaction standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is expected to exceed Y2K in terms of dollars and work hours... |
Managed Care
September 2000 |
Any way you cut it, employers appear to save if Medicare adopts drug benefit A new analysis suggests that a prescription drug benefit in Medicare would reduce employer expense for health coverage--which, in turn, could encourage more employers to offer some form of drug coverage and thus reverse this erosion... |
Managed Care
August 2000
Christina Zarcadoolas, Ph.D. & Mercedes Blanco |
Lost in Translation: Each Word Accurate, Yet... Too often, health plan information is overly literal and insensitive to nuances of language, culture, and understanding. Savvy administrators can help. |
Managed Care
August 2000
Carey Lee Straetz |
Managing Medicaid Rolls Often State-by-State Affair Despite the strong economy, Medicaid enrollment may be slowly rising after a three-year decline. The challenges for serving this population are huge. |
Managed Care
August 2000 |
Prospective Value-Based Assessment Of New Health Care Technologies and Practices People live longer and enjoy healthier lives, but they experience skyrocketing health care expenditures. The relationship between benefits and costs seems clear. You get what you pay for. Or do you? |
Managed Care
August 2000 |
Nation's Only Medicare PSO Under Rubble of M+C Pullout There was a time when provider-sponsored organizations were the government's great hope for the spread of managed Medicare. But less than three years later, the nation's only Medicare PSO is cashing it in. |
Managed Care
August 2000 |
Competing Bills Put Drug Benefit In Medicare Analysts say chances of a Medicare drug benefit passing the Senate are slim. The Senate began debate on competing bills after the House narrowly passed a Republican-backed prescription benefit proposal. |
Managed Care
August 2000 |
With Cost Study, Group Argues For OTC Benefit A study by HECON Associates, a Maryland-based market research group, supports the claim that when prescription drugs become available over the counter, consumers face increased out-of-pocket costs. |
Managed Care
August 2000 |
Any International Health Plan Has To Be Cheap An affordable option for integrated health care bridging private U.S. insurers and Mexico's social security system would save American employers money while providing better care to Mexicans who work in the U.S. but whose families live in Mexico, according to a study. |
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