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Managed Care
May 2001
Bob Carlson |
Real Story in CalPERS Talks Lies Beyond the Headlines True, the rest of the country doesn't always follow California's lead. But you'd probably be right if you viewed the California Public Employees' Retirement System's April deal with eight HMOs as an omen...   |
Managed Care
May 2001 |
Demand's cool for primary care physicians Although they're not quite an endangered species, primary care physicians aren't exactly in high demand these days, either. That's been the experience of a national physician search and recruitment firm... |
Managed Care
May 2001
Michael S. Victoroff |
Medicine's No Place For 'Artistic' Sensibility At one time, I thought I understood how medicine could be an art. However, after hearing "art" invoked too often as an excuse for error, I wonder if we should reconsider the whole proposition... |
Managed Care
May 2001 |
Outlook Number of uninsured unchanged; policy proposals aim to reduce ranks... |
CIO
June 1, 2001
Meg Mitchell Moore |
Word of (Foot and) Mouth You don't need a medical degree to know that infectious diseases often spread faster than the warnings that should precede them. But ProMED-mail may change that... |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2001
Thomas J. McGinnis |
Significant FDA Approvals in 2000 In 2000, the medical product review staffs of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved 160 new drugs, biologic products and medical devices for use in the United States. Many of these approvals advance the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of serious and life-threatening diseases... |
Managed Care
April 2001
Frank Diamond |
Why HMOs Could Thrive In the Economic Downturn It happened in the slump of the early 1990s, and it could very well happen again. Managed care feasts while other industries starve. People will still get sick, even in bad times... |
Managed Care
April 2001
Charles Downey |
EDTUs: Last Line of Defense Against Costly Inpatient Stays Many hospitals already have some variety of emergency diagnostic and treatment units. HMOs and physicians should welcome this level of care... |
Managed Care
April 2001
Michael Levin-Epstein |
PPO Performance Hard To Gauge; Comparisons to HMOs Not Reliable It's long been said that PPOs, by their varied nature, can't be held to the same quality yardsticks as HMOs. Yet, in time, something will have to suffice... |
Managed Care
April 2001
Gregory J. Borca |
Technology Curtails Health Care Fraud The amount of fraud in the health care system is staggering, but computer analysis can help reduce the level. Here is one company's strategy... |
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