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Managed Care September 1999	AMA, Federal Government Fret More About Online Prescribing and Pharmacy The AMA has come out with its strongest condemnation of online prescribing, recommending that action be taken against physicians who prescribe based solely on a patient's answers to an online questionnaire....
Managed Care September 1999	Bipartisan Bill Gains Momentum, Worries Industry Congress this month will take up a bipartisan managed care reform bill, perhaps the first this year to truly worry the insurance lobby....
Managed Care September 1999	Headlines on Deadline... Healthcare industry news briefs.
Managed Care September 1999	New Fee Schedule For Medicare Helps Office Docs ...Office-based physicians will receive slightly higher fees, up to a 1-percent increase, while most hospital-based doctors will see fee reductions of up to 1 percent....
Managed Care September 1999	Physicians Seen As Next in Line For NCQA Review The National Committee for Quality Assurance says it will begin an accreditation program for medical groups two years from now....
Managed Care September 1999	Sagging Fortunes Cited in Departure Of Humana's CEO
Managed Care September 1999 MargaretAnn Cross	It's Too Soon To Write Off Those Suffering PHOs Lessons have been learned from early PHOs, which lacked direction and had misaligned interests between hospitals and physicians.
Managed Care September 1999	Selling The Electronic Patient Chart: A Conversation With Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D. This physician and his backers are making a $100 million bet that electronic patient records, and widespread access to them through the Internet, are not far away for most practices.
Managed Care September 1999 Bob Carlson	Businesses Brace for Premium Hikes as Reform Fever Strikes California California will soon enact its first batch of health care laws in over a decade....
Managed Care September 1999 Michael Levin-Epstein	Deathwatch for AHCPR Ends As Funding Mandate Changes Reports of the death of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, to borrow from Mark Twain, appear to be exaggerated....
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