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Managed Care November 2000	Expect Premium Hikes To Top 10 Percent in '01 Health plan premium increases are again cracking double digits, according to two important gauges of benefit costs...
Managed Care November 2000	Aetna Opens Gate With Several New No-Referral Plans Aetna U.S. Healthcare will launch a series of products Jan. 1 that will drop the gatekeeper function. In most cases, the new plans, called Aetna Open Access, will allow members to receive care from specialists without a referral from their primary care physicians...
Managed Care November 2000	Headlines On Deadline Researchers studying 46,000 employees in six large companies found that 25 percent of medical claims could be linked to lifestyle choices, such as diet, exercise, and smoking... Health plans' HEDIS performance is influenced by socioeconomic factors... etc.
Managed Care November 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	Don't Count on Data Bank Being Opened Any Time Soon What are the chances that Congress will soon enact legislation that will allow the public to tap into the National Practitioner Data Bank electronically to obtain information about its providers' professional history and conduct? Somewhere between slim and none...
Managed Care November 2000	Health Care Issues Force Prosecutors In Many States To Try New Approaches Virtually every item in the news about health care coverage lately, from HMO horror stories to health plan consolidation, from lawsuits to new legislation, means more work for some state's attorney general...
Managed Care November 2000	Big spread in management income Chief medical officers/ medical directors can get an idea of how well they are being compensated in relation to peers by looking at a recent survey conducted by William M. Mercer. Top earners can make as much as $457,000 per year in salary and other compensation...
Managed Care November 2000	For first time ever, HMO enrollment drops in 1999 National HMO enrollment fell by 400,000 last year, from its all-time high of 81.3 million. For at least two years, a wider array of managed care products and an ever-smaller pool of people still covered under indemnity plans slowed the rate of HMO enrollment growth...
American Family Physician November 15, 2000 Rosemarie Sweeney & Toni Lapp	Newsletter Coalition Report Focuses on Care at the End of Life... AHRQ Urges Research on Bioterrorism Threat... AAFP Members Deliver Care Packages to Azerbaijan... HHS Creates Organ Transplant Advisory Panel... Healthy People Encouraged to Wait for Influenza Vaccine...
American Family Physician November 15, 2000	Diary from a Week in Practice Researchers disagree about whether attempts should be made to eradicate Helicobacter pylori in patients who have nonulcer dyspepsia... patients frequently neglect to follow the physician's recommendations... hypotension and abdominal pain... etc.
Managed Care October 2000 Kevin A. Wilson	Public Policy Largely Ignores Adult Immunization Needs Although four fifths of the nation's children are fully immunized, tens of thousands of adults die each year from diseases preventable by vaccination...
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