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Managed Care February 2002 Heidi A. Sauder & Sheri Wallace	Push Is On for Improved Treatment of Women's Psychological Maladies Sure there are diagnostic and treatment challenges, but the money that can be saved for society might make this fertile ground for investment...
Managed Care February 2002 Ira Studin	Reframing the Pharmaceutical Manufacturer/Health Plan Relationship in Managed Care It is suggested that health plans address "total cost-of-care savings" in their budget process, and the pharmaceutical manufacturers establish a "consultative service function" in their managed care divisions...
Managed Care February 2002	Industry Braces for Fallout From Docs' Malpractice Woes Malpractice insurance premiums are going up so quickly that many physicians are feeling pressure to stop offering certain procedures, to move to states that are friendlier to medical practices, or even to retire early...
Managed Care February 2002	Hospital costs lead way in health care expenditures The share of the gross domestic product attributed to health care increased slightly more than overall GDP growth from 1999 to 2000 -- the first time that's happened in nine years...
Managed Care February 2002	Small Employers Want To Sidestep Giving Benefits The recession and higher medical costs are causing small employers to take a hard look at their sponsorship of health benefits...
Managed Care February 2002	Nutrition Help Now Covered By Medicare In a move that may eventually influence benefits packages offered by private insurers, Medicare this year expanded preventive services to include nutrition therapy and pain management for some patients...
Managed Care February 2002	Computer Glitch Blocks Too Many Prescriptions Pharmacists in Massachusetts were hopping mad when a new computer system designed to help process prescriptions for Medicaid enrollees malfunctioned during its launch...
Managed Care February 2002 Michael Levin-Epstein	Plans, Providers Should Use HIPAA Breathing Room Wisely HMOs may delay compliance with HIPAA electronic transactions and code reporting requirements for one year under legislation passed by Congress late last year. However, the new law doesn't affect information privacy requirements slated to take effect in 2003...
Managed Care February 2002	Executive bonuses: Health care takes care of its own If health care bonus packages are any indication, then the industry itself would seem to be more immune to the effects of the economy than most other businesses...
Managed Care February 2002 Bob Carlson	Why You Should Care About Improving Clinical Practice Research on quality of care began over 30 years ago. Pages and pages document recent evidence of underuse, overuse, and misuse of resources. Yet only now does change appear imminent, thanks to a growing cadre of passionate reformers who preach clinical practice improvement...
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