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Managed Care
February 2001 |
Biz Group Warns Hospitals To Move Quickly on Quality Value-based purchasing, a concept that generates lofty discussion but is not always practiced by employers, took a leap forward with the endorsement of a bloc of some of the nation's largest companies...   |
Managed Care
February 2001
Michael Levin-Epstein |
Mainstream Media Misinterpret HCFA's Policy on Medical Errors Is the Health Care Financing Administration changing its policy on disclosure of medical errors to Medicare beneficiaries? The issue is causing a tremendous amount of confusion among physicians and health plans. To HCFA, however, the fuss is much ado about nothing... |
Managed Care
February 2001
Bob Carlson |
State Term Limits, Health Care Do Not Seem To Be Mixing Well State medical associations, hospital associations, health plan associations, and legislators on opposite sides of the political aisle seldom see eye to eye -- except when you ask them about term limits... |
Managed Care
February 2001 |
Some primary care salary increases lag behind other health care professionals Depending on the flavor of primary care a physician practices, cumulative pay increases over the last five years have either been very good, in comparison to other health care professionals -- or very poor... |
Managed Care
February 2001
Joyce R. Ochs |
B2B for Health 'Business to business' is where the real action is in Internet health care... |
Managed Care
February 2001
Michael S. Victoroff |
Helping Patients Make Informed Decisions Now Harder Thanks to Range of Treatment The duty of informed consent necessitates that physicians discuss with their patients the realistic expectations and risks associated with treatment. When no protocol shows a distinct advantage, there is no duty to inform, which creates an ethical problem for physicians... |
Managed Care
February 2001 |
Employers more willing to pass benefit costs along Facing significant increases in health-benefit costs, employers appear less willing to bite the bullet than in the past -- and are passing many of those increases on to workers... |
Information Today
January 29, 2001
Susan Detwiler |
Drugfacts.com Portal Launched to Fill a Niche On December 4, 2000, Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science introduced DRUGFACTS.com, a new portal aimed at pharmacists and drug information professionals... |
Managed Care
January 2001
Frank Diamond |
Blueprint for the Future? Or Trapped in a Lockbox? The Federal Employees Health Benefits program has been touted as the way managed care is supposed to look. Expanding it, however, may not be feasible... |
Managed Care
January 2001
David Ricks & Joe Suminski |
Nowhere To Go but Out? Tracking Medicare+Choice Managed Medicare's trouble may have something to do with underfunding or rich benefits, but for health plans, market share has a lot to do with it, too... |
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