Medical

Magazine articles on health care providers, pharmaceutical companies, and medical technology.

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Managed Care January 2001	Private Proposals Aim To Reduce Lack of Coverage Two new proposals to solve the conundrum of Americans without health coverage would build on the country's existing health system...
Managed Care January 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein	Clinton's Regulations May Be Model For Patient-Rights Legislative Push That handiwork might just provide a preview of the type of patient-rights legislation a sharply divided Congress might produce...
Managed Care January 2001 Bob Carlson	Ohio Struggles To Rescue Managed Medicaid Program Health plans and providers in Ohio's beleaguered Medicaid managed care program, OhioCare, welcomed its per-member, per-month payment increases of more than 25 percent over the last two years...
Managed Care January 2001	When pressure's on, raises get better In this tight labor market, most large companies are offering competitive salaries to recruit top talent, while making pay raises attractive enough to retain good employees who are knowledgeable about the organization. This is, perhaps, doubly true for managed care organizations...
Managed Care January 2001 Mark D. Abruzzo	When Claims Are Audited, Following Compliance Laws Matters Ever since the government intensified its efforts to crack down on medical fraud, and asked the health care community to assist, compliance and compliance planning are the buzzwords. Unfortunately, compliance efforts are often misguided and can put the practice in an awkward position...
Managed Care January 2001	HMO members willing to pay to manage benefits online With one third of health care consumers now using the Internet to retrieve health information or communicate with health care professionals online, health plans have new opportunities to capitalize on their relationships with members...
American Family Physician February 15, 2001 Michael P. McGrail	Disability Prevention Principles in the Primary Care Office Assessment of impairment and subsequent disability is best made on the basis of objective data by use of a biopsychosocial model to ensure that the expression of disability does not mask other unaddressed psychologic or social issues...
Salon.com February 12, 2001 Ivan Oransky	"PC, M.D." by Sally Satel A doctor argues that affirmative action and ignoramus patients organizations are ruining American healthcare...
Searcher January 2001 Eva Perkins	Pharmaceutical Decisions and the Net: More Healthcare Resources on the Internet Useful sites for researching and purchasing pharmaceuticals online with a look at the business history and usefulness of Drugstore.com and PlanetRx.
Salon.com January 19, 2001 J.B. Orenstein	Physicians' Desk Reference, 55th edition Why doesn't anyone know that Elvis' favorite book, the Physicians' Desk Reference, is written by drug companies?
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