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

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Managed Care January 2001 Shelley Burns	How Medical Managers Avoid Mindsets That Are Minefields Viewing obstacles as opportunities can lead to professional success and personal satisfaction. Pointers from the business world, applied to health care...
Managed Care January 2001 John Carroll	Florida Leads the Way in Attempting Disease Management for Medicaid Officials across the country are watching to see whether the Sunshine State's innovation can save money...
Managed Care January 2001 Richard B. Dwore	Study An Opportunity for HMOs To Use Marketing To Increase Enrollee Satisfaction...
Managed Care January 2001	Public's Definition of Quality Focused on Medical Errors A survey jointly sponsored by the U.S. Agency for Research and Quality and the Kaiser Family Foundation has found that information about medical errors and malpractice suits is what people find to be most helpful when determining provider quality...
Managed Care January 2001	Political Activity Gets Mass. HMOs Into Hot Water The Massachusetts secretary of state is waging war on the state's not-for-profit HMOs, which financed the bulk of a campaign to defeat a ballot proposal that would have required the legislature to create a universal-care system in the state...
Managed Care January 2001	More HMOs to fold, consolidate in 2001 More than six dozen HMOs have characteristics that put them in danger of going out of business, according to projections by InterStudy publications...
Managed Care January 2001	Express Scripts' Formulary Rulings To Go Online The public will have a chance to see what until now has been, mostly, understood only by managed care insiders: how a prescription drug winds up on a formulary...
Managed Care January 2001	Humana Reports Rosy Outcomes For Complex DM Humana and Accordant Health Services report achieving significant reductions of complications among patients with multiple sclerosis, lupus, and cystic fibrosis...
Managed Care January 2001	HealthPartners Sets Ambitious Member Goals Minneapolis-based HealthPartners is rolling out the next phase of its Partners for Better Health Program. New measures include outcomes standards for reduction of heart attacks, depression, and diabetes-related complications in its 660,000 members...
Managed Care January 2001	Study: Elderly Exit When They Exceed Rx Benefit Cap In a study that confirms what has long been assumed, Medicare HMO enrollees become more likely to drop their carriers when they exceed annual pharmacy-benefit caps...
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