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Managed Care July 2001 Maureen Glabman	Provider Shortage Puts HMOs In Bind Increasing demand for physicians and physician extenders is starting to strain the system. To a large extent, this is unexpected bitter fruit of managed care's labor...
Managed Care July 2001 Harry L. Leider	HMOs Need To Share Gains of DM Programs Physicians are more likely to buy in if they see better outcomes -- and financial rewards that go with them...
Managed Care July 2001 John Carroll	AMA Slams Managed Care Even As Leadership Splinters The wild calls for patients' rights at the House of Delegates meeting did not prevent the chief executive from suing the board of trustees...
Managed Care July 2001 Charles Downey	Disease Management Uses Web To Net Savings More vendors are turning to the Internet to expand the reach of programs. Cutting-edge technology helps patients help themselves...
Managed Care July 2001 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Lucien L. Leape, M.D. The way to reduce errors in health care is to change systems, says this Harvard educator. Punishment encourages people to cover up...
Managed Care July 2001 Joan M. O'Connell	Satisfaction and Patient Outcomes of a Telephone-Based Nurse Triage Service Overall satisfaction with telephone-based nurse triage services was high and did not vary substantially by caller characteristics...
Managed Care July 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein	Tilt of Senate to Democrats Speeded Debate on Patients' Rights The Senate debate over the Patients' Bill of Rights made for great theater, but was the outcome ever in doubt?
Managed Care July 2001	Compensating the pharmacy services manager One of the positions that Warren Surveys looked at when it tracked the salaries of 266 titles at over 500 HMO and managed care companies was pharmacy services manager...
Managed Care July 2001 Jack McCain	Companies Search For Ways To Pass Costs on to Employees Now that major corporations have exhausted the savings from the transition to managed care, they are left wondering what they can do next to curtail rising health care costs. Most have no idea. Oh, they do have one plan -- letting employees shoulder the burden of increasing premiums...
Managed Care July 2001 John Otrompke	Stark Allows Federal Regulators To Review Claims Records Fully HMO executives, as well as the providers and physicians who contract with them, should have by now felt the changes in their daily work lives resulting from the government's increased scrutiny of health plans' operations under the fraud-and-abuse compliance laws...
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