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In Battle to Lower Employers' Health Care Costs, Will Employees Become `General Contractors'? Following the backlash against managed care and faced with a sharp rise in health care costs this year, employers are searching for a new cure to spiraling health care premiums...  |
Reason February 2002 Mike Godwin |
Prescription Panic How the anthrax scare challenged drug patents...  |
Managed Care January 2002 Frank Diamond |
Making the Case for a 'Health Care Fed' A U.S. government agency, some argue, should be created to rule on usefulness of medications, equipment, and procedures. Britain has just instituted such a system...  |
Managed Care January 2002 Ed Rabinowitz |
When Physicians' Skills Fail, Collaboration Beats Punishment New programs hold promise for rehabilitating sound physicians who have, for any number of reasons, lost some of the skills they started with...  |
Managed Care January 2002 Patrick Mullen |
Interview: Peter Lee The head of the Pacific Business Group on Health says the coming trend in care will be patients making informed decisions before they get sick...  |
Managed Care January 2002 |
To Save Money, Employers Reduce Number of Plans Offered to Workers The days of employers scrambling to provide a choice of health benefits packages to lure and keep employees may be ending. The New York Times reports that large companies across the country are sharply reducing the number of HMOs they offer...  |
Managed Care January 2002 |
1-Year Delay Near In Implementation Of HIPAA Rules It looks like most players in health care -- IT vendors excluded -- will get what they want if a bill delaying the deadline for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's electronic claims standards becomes law...  |
Managed Care January 2002 Michael Levin-Epstein |
HHS Seems To Soften Hard Line on Kickbacks Do two recent advisory opinions from the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General signal some moderation in federal policy on what constitutes a kickback? Maybe. Or then again, maybe not...  |
Managed Care January 2002 Donald Wilcox & Stephanie Kanwit |
Debating RICO Suits vs. Health Plans States Failed To Protect Docs From Insurers... Patients Will Suffer; Greedy Lawyers to Blame...  |
Managed Care January 2002 Michael S. Victoroff |
May I Please See Some Identification? Out of the darkness of terrorism, America's focus on homeland security casts new light on national ID cards. Conceivably, this could reanimate the stagnant debate over Universal Medical Record Identifiers...  |
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