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Managed Care November 2002	Bush's Drug-Patent Move Makes Generics Hot Topic The inability of President Bush and Congress to come to terms on such hot-button health care issues as HMO liability and Medicare drug coverage has helped to push another topic to the fore: the availability of generic drugs.
Managed Care November 2002	Tiered formularies: Giving employees more responsibility Experts who say that educating consumers will be the next method used to curb escalating health care costs often point to the success of tiered formularies, which have made patients more aware of the costs of medications.
Managed Care November 2002	For Most Part, CHIP Dodges Budget Ax Though the State Children's Health Insurance Program managed to avoid cuts in fiscal year 2002, strains are beginning to show that may mean beneficiaries will face copayments for medications.
Managed Care November 2002	Ellwood Puts His Faith In Technology The Jackson Hole Group, public policy experts organized by Paul Ellwood whose ideas became the bulwark of managed care -- though not exactly as they envisioned it -- have met for the first time in six years to give fixing the system one more try.
Managed Care November 2002 John Carroll	Drug Companies Crying Foul Over Medicaid's Formulary Push With states' preferred drug lists spreading like a prairie wildfire, the manufacturers have mounted a furious legislative counterattack, funding grass roots campaigns aimed at fanning the opposition in state legislatures even as they wage a legal war in state and federal courts.
Managed Care November 2002	Combating the coming physician shortage 38 percent of the nation's 740,000 physicians are 50 or older -- that's one of the reasons that health care faces a coming shortage of doctors. Martin/Fletcher estimates that 250,000 will be needed over the next 10 years to replace those lost to retirement and other reasons.
Managed Care November 2002	Flu season: Most HMO formularies cover Tamiflu, Relenza As the influenza season approaches, managed care patient access to Tamiflu (oseltamivir) from Roche Laboratories and Relenza (zanamivir) from GlaxoSmithKline, the two medications indicated for influenza, looks relatively open.
Managed Care November 2002 Fox et al.	HIPAA Modifications Ease Burdens, But Don't Take Anything for Granted Although the final privacy rule in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eases some burdens for managed care organizations and providers, it still significantly restricts the use and disclosure of protected health information.
Managed Care November 2002	Biggest one-year premium jump Health care premiums for large employers will increase 15 percent on average in 2003 -- the biggest year-over-year jump since Towers Perrin began conducting the survey in 1989.
CIO November 15, 2002 Susannah Patton	Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Finds a Remedy After the HMO's acquisition spree, it was left with systems that weren't integrated.
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