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

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Managed Care April 2001	Purchasers Still Not Focused On Quality, Says Business Group It's a common lament that all but the biggest companies buy health benefits primarily on the basis of price, not quality. New findings by the Washington Business Group on Health back up that assertion...
Managed Care April 2001	Court Ruling May Mean Resolution Or Revolution A key federal court ruling was expected at press time on a series of lawsuits against the HMO industry. Additionally, the nation's largest managed care operator reportedly is negotiating a settlement...
Managed Care April 2001	Employers easing prescription limitations? Some older medications once viewed by employers as "lifestyle" drugs when making benefit decisions are slowly gaining recognition as important components of primary care...
Managed Care April 2001	U.S. Health Care 'Substandard,' Says IOM Report Managed care -- a whipping boy for all that is wrong with health care in the U.S. -- is not to blame for a badly fragmented system that provides incentives to treat acute episodes and not manage chronic illness, according to the Institute of Medicine's landmark report...
Managed Care April 2001	HMOs: Watch Out For Internet-Based Benefit Managers Forrester Research predicts that Internet-based companies that help people manage their employer-sponsored benefits will become a force by 2005...
Managed Care April 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein	President's Privacy-Rule Review Creates Controversy, Confusion The final medical privacy regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) stand out in terms of controversy and confusion. The end game is still cast in doubt...
Managed Care April 2001 Bob Carlson	Nonphysician Groups Push To Expand Scope of Practice State laws determine what optometrists, naturopaths, psychologists, and other allied health practitioners can do. Despite vigorous opposition from state medical associations, scope-of-practice bills succeed in changing those laws every year...
Managed Care April 2001	Compensation, patient-care time vary widely by practice size Self-employed physicians who practice with one or more other doctors tend to spend more time in patient-care activities than solo practitioners -- and their compensation reflects that...
Managed Care April 2001	Employees' tolerance of change underestimated? Health care prognosticators have lately been predicting the coming of a defined-contribution payment system in which an employer would give an employee a voucher (or other stipend) and tell him to go find and purchase his own health care benefits. But employers are unlikely to switch...
Managed Care April 2001 Joyce R. Ochs	The Future Is Almost Here For Purchasing on the Web Despite the recent nose dive by technology stocks, e-commerce is alive and well. The dot-coms may have faded, but the real Internet action is coming from traditional companies that are expanding their marketplaces by adding Internet access...
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