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Managed Care December 2001	Events of Sept. 11 Add Pressure To Boost Health Plan Premiums The economic impact of Sept. 11 and the ensuing anthrax scare is still being calibrated, but it appears that health insurance premiums will increase even more than already had been predicted...
Managed Care December 2001	Survey: HMOs confused about HIPAA privacy regs Though the clock is ticking for HMOs to comply with new privacy guidelines under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, indications are that many companies are confused about what they need to do...
Managed Care December 2001	Errors Traced To Counters of Pharmacists One place where patient ignorance often goes unaddressed is at the pharmacy counter, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Managed Care December 2001	Tie to Employers Stresses Fragility Of Health Coverage About two thirds of Americans receive health insurance through their employers or families, and many gain or lose coverage when they marry, divorce, or move to new jobs...
Managed Care December 2001	CMS Medicaid Managed Care Proposal Under Close Scrutiny Bioterrorism. Medicaid managed care plans. No link between them? Guess again. It all has to do with how proposed Medicaid regulations would affect patients' rights and funding for Medicaid programs ranging from nursing home care to emergency rooms...
Managed Care December 2001	Specialist compensation outpaces primary care Specialists' compensation has risen steadily in recent years, according to the Medical Group Management Association...
Managed Care December 2001	Employers expect to pay more for health care benefits in 2002 Before Sept. 11, the short-term prognosis for keeping a lid on health care benefit costs was not good. If the economy sinks into recession, it will get even worse...
Reason January 2002 Brian Doherty	Staying Well It's long been assumed that the 44.2 million Americans who don't have health insurance aren't getting health care. A recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research casts doubt on this correlation, at least among those who are self-employed...
Mother Jones Jan/Feb 2002 Bill Hogan	A Biodefense Boondoggle As pharmaceutical companies line up for multimillion-dollar contracts to make bioterrorism vaccines, some question whether the industry is up to the job...
Fast Company January 2002 George Anders	Roche's New Scientific Method How does a giant pharmaceutical company reckon with genomics technology? By making a fresh start in how it recruits its scientists, manages projects, and uses computers. Here's how the Roche Group is reinventing how it invents...
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