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Managed Care June 2002	How Kaiser matches up against Britain's National Health Service The British Medical Journal this year published a comparison of Kaiser Permanente and the National Health Service, concluding that Kaiser's performance is considerably better in certain respects with similar cost.
Managed Care June 2002 Bob Carlson	First Business, Now Health Care: Signing Away One's Right To Sue More and more, mandatory arbitration clauses are surfacing in agreements between businesses and individuals. Will the line be drawn at managed care?
Managed Care June 2002 John Carroll	DM and Medicare: A Marriage Made in Heaven? With a budget of about $230 billion for 40 million patients, many with chronic ailments, is it any wonder that disease management and Medicare are courting?
Managed Care June 2002 Berg & Wadhwa	Diabetes Disease Management in a Community-Based Setting This study strongly suggests that the implementation of such a program is associated with positive behavioral change and substantial reduction in medical-service utilization.
Managed Care June 2002 April Tererri	Health Plans Seem Supportive of Depression-Screening Push The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force made a new recommendation that primary care physicians screen all adult patients for depression
Managed Care June 2002	Calif. Blues Plan Says No Tiers For Hospitals Blue Cross of California has abandoned its plan to separate hospitals by copayment tiers.
Managed Care June 2002 John Carroll	States May Become Battleground In Push for Collective Bargaining Physicians at a local Texas hospital gained certification as a bargaining unit, and approached a managed care company to negotiate pay, but the effort failed. A new bill would allow physicians to ease toward collective bargaining nationwide.
Managed Care June 2002	Physician incomes rise in academia Compensation continues to increase for most physician categories in academic medical settings, according to a survey by the Medical Group Management Association.
Managed Care June 2002 Joyce Ochs	More Organizations Pull Plug On Single-Function Systems Many hospitals are replacing single-function systems with one integrated system. Such systems are called enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
Managed Care June 2002 T. Emmet Thornton	HIPAA Affects Docs' Response To Subpoenas for Medical Data The Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act of 1996 will supersede state law on medical-record subpoenas in several respects.
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