| Old Articles: <Older 261-270 Newer> |
|---|
 |
Managed Care
March 2001
John A. Marcille |
Should That Apple a Day Be Red, Green, or Golden? So if everyone's at least in agreement that preventing illness should be a common goal, why is a mutual understanding of "prevention" so elusive?   |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Privacy Up, Liability Down In State Houses This Year Privacy proposals will be one of the most prevalent -- though not the most hotly debated -- issues related to health coverage in state houses this year, according to a survey by the Health Insurance Association of America... |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Maine Gets HCFA Waiver for Drug Discount Program The Health Care Financing Administration has given Maine officials clearance to offer a discount prescription program to 200,000 people without a pharmacy benefit... |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Bush: Medicare Drug Benefit Tied To Overall Reform Working quickly, President Bush has drafted the first half of his prescription drug plan for Medicare and sent it to Congress... |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Does Cost-Sharing For Drugs Lead To Adverse Events? A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that HMOs' increased use of cost-sharing to soften prescription drug expenses may have actually increase overall medical costs over the long term. |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Docs Spend More Time, Not Less, With Patients Now Confounding conventional wisdom, researchers writing in the New England Journal of Medicine have found that the spread of managed care during the past decade has not reduced the amount of time spent with patients... |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
To Control Costs, CalPERS Rejects All Bids for 2002 In a dramatic attempt to keep a lid on health care premiums, the California Public Employees' Retirement System threw out every bid it received from health plans competing for a chunk of its business in 2002.... |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Single-source drugs get formulary preference Managed care organizations often place costly new drugs on a formulary's priciest tier, but products for which substitutes do not exist often are made available at lower copayment levels... |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Physician income trends vary by specialty In tracking the salaries of primary care physicians and specialists over a decade, the Medical Group Management Association has documented similarities and differences in trends based on specialty... |
Managed Care
March 2001
Michael Levin-Epstein |
Managed Care Again Seen on Capitol Hill As Ripe for Reform Of the many health care issues circulating in the nation's capital, managed care reform is back as the biggest of them all... |
| <Older 261-270 Newer> Return to current articles. |
