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Managed Care
August 2001 |
Group Rates Value Of Recommended Preventive Care Child vaccinations, tobacco-cessation counseling and treatment, and screening for vision impairment in the elderly are the most important preventive services -- from the standpoints of cost-effectiveness, reducing the necessity of treatment for illness, and averting injury...   |
Managed Care
August 2001 |
In Calif., Bonuses Based on Quality, Not Cost Savings Blue Cross of California has decided to move away from the traditional managed care incentive of rewarding physicians for controlling medical costs, and instead will implement a program in which physicians receive bonuses for quality of care and patient satisfaction... |
Managed Care
August 2001 |
Prescription Plan For Medicare Faces Lawsuit President Bush's plan to give prescription discounts to Medicare beneficiaries has created quite a storm... |
Managed Care
August 2001
Michael Levin-Epstein |
How Much Damage Did Supreme Court Ruling Do to Health Care Unionization? Managed care and other health care organizations still are trying to figure out the probable effect of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that lays new ground rules for determining whether physicians and nurses who are employed at health care facilities are entitled to organize... |
Managed Care
August 2001 |
HMO-CMO Salary Survey How nice to be the chief medical officer of a large commercial HMO in or near Minnesota... |
Managed Care
August 2001
Michael S. Victoroff |
Why Falsify Records When Anonymity Can Be Had in a Tested, Familiar Way? Should people be allowed to preserve the confidentiality of their pharmacy or medical treatment records? There may be a solution that doesn't constitute fraud, and has proven effective... |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Jeremy Lott |
Pupils Wide Open Prescription laws, generally regarded as a safeguard for the public, may be facilitating protectionism and price-fixing instead. Attorneys general in 33 states are suing the American Optometric Association for jacking up the price of contact lenses... |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Jacob Sullum |
Through the Nose An FDA advisory committee has voted overwhelmingly to recommend over-the-counter status for Claritin, Allegra, and Zyrtec, three popular prescription allergy drugs. But the drugs' manufacturers are opposing a switch, fearing that it could hurt their profits... |
Salon.com
August 2, 2001
Ivan Oransky |
Human guinea pigs When people put their bodies on the line in medical trials, can they be sure that scientists aren't cutting corners or preoccupied with stock prices? |
Managed Care
July 2001
Bob Carlson |
Oregon Attempts To Blaze Trail With 'Reference-Based' Formulary Pharmaceutical makers invest enormous sums in R&D -- but they also reap enormous profits. States are impatient with the appearance that creates... |
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